Results for: mongodb

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL

Two score and five years ago two young IBM researchers brought forth on databases, a new language, conceived in relational, dedicated to the proposition that data can be manipulated declaratively and easily.   In the years since Don Chamberlin and Ramond...

April 2, 2019
Couchbase in Telecom:  MegaFon, Russia

Couchbase in Telecom: MegaFon, Russia

Egor Kovalchuk is a deployment manager in MegaFon, one of the largest telecommunication companies in Russia.  His career in telecom spans more than a decade.  Egor’s team is in charge of developing, integrating, and monitoring multiple business systems and applications...

N1QL & SEARCH: Leverage Full-Text Search (FTS) Index in N1QL

N1QL & SEARCH: Leverage Full-Text Search (FTS) Index in N1QL

With Couchbase v6.5, Full-Text Search is now integrated into the Couchbase N1QL query construct. Customers can now leverage FTS indexes directly with N1QL. This provides developers a single API to combine N1QL exact predicate matching and FTS powerful searching. The...

December 11, 2018
It’s the Workload, Stupid!

It’s the Workload, Stupid!

As an application architect, eventually, you’d have to choose the database or database as a service (DBaaS) to power your newest application or a micro-service. Selecting one of the databases among relational databases was easier.  The use cases were roughly...

November 14, 2018
Using YCSB to Benchmark JSON Databases

Using YCSB to Benchmark JSON Databases

Bruce Lindsay once said, “There are three things important in the database world: Performance, Performance, and Performance”.  Most enterprise architects know, as we progress in database features and architectures, it’s important to measure performance in an open way so they can compare...

September 10, 2018
Couchbase Server 5.5 Released

Couchbase Server 5.5 Released

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Couchbase Server 5.5 production release is now available! We are very excited to share more information about this substantial extension of the Couchbase Data Platform. This release introduces several new Enterprise Grade features relating to agility,...

July 23, 2018
Optimize Latency, Throughput With Master Slave Replication

Optimize Latency, Throughput With Master Slave Replication

In Couchbase, latency and throughput are significantly impacted by data replication. There are different kinds of data replication models, mainly master-slave (Couchbase, MongoDB, Espresso), master-master (BDR for PostgreSQL, GoldenGate for Oracle) and masterless (Dynamo, Cassandra). This article only discusses the...

February 20, 2018
Alexa Skills with Azure Functions and Couchbase

Alexa Skills with Azure Functions and Couchbase

Alexa Skills are the “apps” that you can build to run on Amazon devices like the Echo, Echo Dot, etc. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to build an Alexa skill using serverless Azure Functions and a Couchbase backend...

February 13, 2018
Couchbase and  Ansible

Couchbase and Ansible

Arkadiusz Borucki works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Amadeus, focused on NoSQL databases and automation. In his day-to-day work, he uses Couchbase, MongoDB, Oracle, Python, and Ansible. He’s a self-proclaimed big data enthusiast, interested in data store technologies, distributed systems, analytics,...

Comparing Couchbase vs CosmosDB

Comparing Couchbase vs CosmosDB

Microsoft has generated a lot of buzz since the launch of CosmosDB. It is basically a rebranding of Amazon DocumentDB with some new cool features. Let’s go a little deeper on it and explore its strategy, documentation, what developers have...

Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure

Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure

Scaling is one of Couchbase Server’s strengths. It’s easy to scale, and Couchbase’s architecture makes an efficient use of your scaling resources. In fact, when Couchbase customer Viber switched from Mongo to Couchbase, they cut the number of servers they...

December 18, 2017
Scaling a Couchbase Cluster for Increasing and Decreasing Demand

Scaling a Couchbase Cluster for Increasing and Decreasing Demand

When it comes to scaling a database, it is often a task that people want to avoid. For relational databases, which are often vertically sized databases, the administrators would have to take the database offline and add new hardware to...