Tag: JSON
Understanding Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) – Part 1
If you have any familiarity with Couchbase, you definitely know XDCR. If you use Couchbase for any of your applications, you are very likely using XDCR. I wouldn’t be wrong if I said, XDCR is indeed one of our customers’...
Chaitra Ramarao, Sr. Product Manager, Couchbase Inc.
December 1, 2018
On Par with Window Functions.
Use golf analogy when explaining to executives. Use a car analogy for all others. — Confucius. The purpose of window functions is to translate the business reporting requirements declaratively and effectively to SQL so query performance and developer/business-analyst efficiency improve...
Keshav Murthy
November 22, 2018
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...
Keshav Murthy
November 14, 2018
YCSB-JSON: Implementation for Couchbase and MongoDB
YCSB is a great benchmarking tool built to be easily extended by any driver which supports and implements basic operations like: insert, read, update, delete and scan. Plain synthetic data introduced by YCSB fits this paradigm perfectly. But when it comes...
Alex Gyryk
October 6, 2018
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...
Keshav Murthy
September 10, 2018
TPCx-IoT benchmark with Cisco & Couchbase.
The Internet of Things (IoT) application brings a new dimension to the database workload. What makes IoT click is the availability of data from the edge devices at the gateways, servers for instant analysis, rollups, etc. Data generated is heterogeneous...
Keshav Murthy
August 4, 2018
A Guide to N1QL features in Couchbase 5.5: Special Edition
N1QL was first released with Couchbase 4.0 in the fall of 2015. After two and a half years, it’s great to release Couchbase 5.5 and this N1QL 5.5 feature booklet with it at the New York Couchbase Connect. This special...
Keshav Murthy
May 10, 2018
Build a Swift App Using Couchbase Lite as an Embedded NoSQL Database
Couchbase Mobile 2.0 brings the power of NoSQL JSON Document Store to iOS, Android and .Net Mobile Platforms. With Couchbase Mobile, you can build mobile applications with offline-only and offline-first capabilities. Couchbase Mobile supports flexible deployment options. You can deploy...
Divide and Conquer: Couchbase GSI Index partitioning.
In Couchbase, data is always partitioned using the consistent hash value of the document key into vbukets which are stored on the data nodes. Couchbase Global Secondary Index (GSI) abstracts the indexing operations and runs as a distinct service within...
Keshav Murthy
April 11, 2018
Understanding Index Grouping And Aggregation in Couchbase N1QL Query
Couchbase N1QL is a modern query processing engine designed to provide aggregate SQL for JSON by index on distributed data with a flexible data model. Modern databases are deployed on massive clusters. Using JSON provides a flexible data mode. N1QL...
Sitaram Vemulapalli
April 3, 2018
Develop with Agility, Develop at any Scale with Couchbase on Cisco UCS
Author’s note: This excerpt from the Couchbase on Cisco UCS® solution brief is published on behalf of Cisco. Full solution brief for Couchbase on Cisco UCS® is available later in this blog. As the world migrates to a digital economy, businesses are...
Keshav Murthy
February 16, 2018
JSON Modeling for RDBMS Users (video)
JSON modeling was covered in a previous blog post which was, in turn, based on a CSV import blog post that came before that. While writing the post on JSON modeling, it occurred to me that it might be useful...
Matthew Groves
January 26, 2018