Tag: Architecture
Example Architectures for Data Intensive Applications.
…a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. —William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style In the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, Martin Kleppmann has written about traits...
Keshav Murthy
June 14, 2020
Couchbase beats MongoDB™ with greater flexibility and stronger availability for geo-distributed applications
Today’s businesses compete in a digital economy where downtime can be deadly. But keeping data highly available is never as simple as backing up one database to be an up-to-the-second copy of another. Instead, modern databases have to function in...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
March 4, 2019
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 2 : Architecture
Back in November, Raju Suravarjjala, (Sr. Director, Couchbase QE & Performance) and I presented “Mindmap: Oracle to Couchbase For Developers”. You can see the slide deck here: http://bit.ly/2mPdJfo. Overview article for the series is at is at https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/. This series is written in...
Keshav Murthy
January 22, 2018
Create the Right Index, Get the Right Performance.
Introduction There are three things important in database systems: performance, performance, performance. For NoSQL database systems, there are three important things: performance at scale, performance at scale, performance at scale. Understanding the index options, creating the right index, with the...
Keshav Murthy
November 12, 2017
Distributed Databases and Replication Design
One of the most important elements of distributed database architecture is replication. In fact, it defines the database architecture. It determines whether or not the data is consistent / available. Master / Slave Writes are executed on master nodes, replicated...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Introducing the Couchbase DOTNET SDK 2.0 Development Blog Series
Hello folks, over the next couple of months we’ll be doing a series of blogs that will follow the development of the Couchbase .NET 2.0 SDK. In this post I will go over the high level architecture, some motivation and...
Jeff Morris, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
Performance Oriented Architecture
“How should I access my data?” is often asked by developers as they contemplate a storage solution. To answer that question one first needs to understand the application under consideration. Who are the most important users, and which use cases...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
Topology: The Architecture of Distributed Systems
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge the architecture of a distributed system by its topology. If two distributed systems are equally effective, is the one with the simpler topology the one with the better...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
When Big Data is Slow
The key to being successful in big data initiatives is being able to manage the speed, scale and structure at sub-millisecond speed. Big Data is a big term. It encompasses concepts about data types, dozens of different technologies to manage...
Doug Laird, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
December 16, 2014