Tag: Disaster Recovery

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
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies

In this post, we review some important considerations for planning for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Business continuity needs careful consideration when using Couchbase as a core business service. Today’s focus is on the application layer and the...

Couchbase as a Persistent System of Records – Storage Considerations

Couchbase as a Persistent System of Records – Storage Considerations

When using Couchbase as a persistent system of records the underlying storage infrastructure needs to be considered. Infrastructure decisions have an impact on the overall performance and availability of the data store, with the knock-on effect of impacting the data...

Always-Available Real-Time Data With High Availability In Couchbase Analytics

Always-Available Real-Time Data With High Availability In Couchbase Analytics

As part of the Couchbase Server 7.1 release, Couchbase Analytics Service is very excited to announce the support of High Availability capability availability to ensure users can access data within Analytics Service collections/datasets when one or more Analytics nodes is...

Introducing XDCR Support for Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0

Introducing XDCR Support for Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0

Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) is a database essential. XDCR ensures database High Availability (HA), disaster recovery, and geo-locality. With the Couchbase Server 7.0 release, XDCR also supports new individual namespaces called Scopes and Collections within each database Bucket. Support...

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR

XDCR, by design, provides customers the flexibility to tune the number of replications for a given bucket depending on the desired performance. New replication requires streaming all existing documents in the bucket, and, therefore, it exhibits a higher mutation rate...

Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

Advanced Filtering with XDCR 6.5

Customers use XDCR for various use cases from high availability to data locality to disaster recovery to cloud migration and hybrid cloud deployments. To meet these use cases, there are a number of circumstances where they would want to replicate...

Couchbase beats MongoDB™ with greater flexibility and stronger availability for geo-distributed applications

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...

Meeting data protection needs for Couchbase Data Platform

Meeting data protection needs for Couchbase Data Platform

In the world where data is the currency, backup & recovery for a database is as essential as any other defining parameter such as consistency or performance because the customers cannot afford data loss under any circumstance. Couchbase offers a...

Intro to Couchbase HA/DR: Java Multi-Cluster Aware Client

Intro to Couchbase HA/DR: Java Multi-Cluster Aware Client

In this post, I’m going to take a look at a sample application that uses the Couchbase Server Multi-Cluster Aware (MCA) Java client. This client goes hand-in-hand with Couchbase’s Cross-Data Center Replication (XDCR) capabilities. XDCR supports flexible replication of data...

Intro to Couchbase HA and DR: Setting up XDCR Step-by-Step

Intro to Couchbase HA and DR: Setting up XDCR Step-by-Step

High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are two of the driving reasons to move from a traditional RDBMS to a NoSQL-based system like Couchbase Server. In this webinar we went over the many features of Couchbase Server that address...