Tag: Couchbase Sync Gateway

Data Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages

Data Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages

Data replication (storing redundant copies of data in multiple locations) is crucial when it comes to maintaining high availability, improving the performance of your systems, and ensuring business operations run smoothly in the event of disaster. However, it does come...

July 28, 2023
Scopes and Collections Support in Couchbase Mobile for Edge Applications

Scopes and Collections Support in Couchbase Mobile for Edge Applications

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Couchbase Mobile 3.1, which includes Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing solutions. This is a significant release that introduces cloud-to-edge support for scopes and collections in Couchbase Mobile...

Data Replication and Synchronization in Couchbase

Data Replication and Synchronization in Couchbase

Data replication and synchronization may seem redundant at first glance. They both refer to copying data from one persistent repository to another for consistency in a distributed architecture. But for Couchbase, each term has a different meaning and each is...

Energy at the Edge: How the Right Database Can Lower Our Gas Prices

Energy at the Edge: How the Right Database Can Lower Our Gas Prices

What can a database do to help an oil and gas company lower rising prices at the pump? It turns out, a lot! In this post, I explore some data-related factors of rapidly increasing energy costs and how Couchbase can...

Couchbase Mobile changes source code license to BSL 1.1

Couchbase Mobile changes source code license to BSL 1.1

With the Couchbase Mobile 3 release, we are announcing that Couchbase is changing our source code license from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License version 1.1 (BSL 1.1) for Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite products. Last year, we announced...

February 25, 2022
Wavelength Zones for Edge Computing with Couchbase

Wavelength Zones for Edge Computing with Couchbase

For decades, “the last mile” has been one of the weakest parts of Internet infrastructure. Today, mobile operators are ready to change that by providing reliable and fast connectivity with LAN-like latency for mobile applications. The introduction of AWS Wavelength...

January 6, 2022
The Future of Healthcare is at the Edge

The Future of Healthcare is at the Edge

How Can Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway help if you’re hurt, and stranded on a remote mountain top? I hope you were able to attend ConnectONLINE, our recent developer conference that featured a ton of great Couchbase product information, live...

OIDC Authorization Code Flow for Client Authentication in Couchbase Sync Gateway [Part 3 of 3]

OIDC Authorization Code Flow for Client Authentication in Couchbase Sync Gateway [Part 3 of 3]

Couchbase Sync Gateway supports OpenID Connect or OIDC-based client authentication. In this context, clients may be Couchbase Lite clients that synchronize data with Sync Gateway over the Internet using the websockets-based replication protocol or they could be web frontend or...

Couchbase Modifies License of Free Community Edition Package

Couchbase Modifies License of Free Community Edition Package

As Couchbase increases its presence in the market, we have decided to modify the distribution and usage license of some of our free products. This change is necessary in order to protect the community from over-deployment of unsupported and unpatched...

June 30, 2021
OIDC Implicit Flow for Client Authentication in Couchbase Sync Gateway [Part 2 of 3]

OIDC Implicit Flow for Client Authentication in Couchbase Sync Gateway [Part 2 of 3]

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is a popular client authentication mechanism supported by Couchbase Sync Gateway. In this context, clients may be Couchbase Lite clients that synchronize data with Sync Gateway over the Internet using the websockets-based replication protocol or they could...

OAuth 2.0 & OIDC Fundamentals for Authentication & Authorization [Part 1 of 3]

OAuth 2.0 & OIDC Fundamentals for Authentication & Authorization [Part 1 of 3]

Developers and architects simply can’t build modern applications without running into issues of authorization and authentication. OAuth 2.0 is an industry standard for “delegated authorization” which is the ability to provide an application or client access to data or features offered...

Get set to the edge with Sync Gateway

Get set to the edge with Sync Gateway

Introduction Imagine you are going to meet an important client in downtown San Francisco, CA and you have an email with details on who to call to when you get to the office lobby. You are in the lobby but...