Tag: nosql

Announcing Flex Index With Couchbase

Announcing Flex Index With Couchbase

Flex Index Explained What is a Flex Index? One of the key tasks of a database engine is how to efficiently manage the search and retrieval of the data therein. The efficiency and balance between resource consumption and performance are...

August 12, 2020
Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance

Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance

Array is THE difference between the relational model and the JSON model.   — Gerald Sangudi Abstract JSON array gives you flexibility in the type of elements,  number of elements, size of the elements, and the depth of the elements.  This...

August 4, 2020
Comparing MongoDB MQL with N1QL features in Couchbase 6.5

Comparing MongoDB MQL with N1QL features in Couchbase 6.5

This is a short note reviewing the MongoDB MQL language features highlighted in the release blog: MongoDB 4.4: User-Driven Engineering. Ready for You.  MongoDB 4.4 release has added a number of features for the MQL language. Couchbase released 6.5 earlier...

July 31, 2020
Analyze This: MongoDB & Couchbase Analytics.

Analyze This: MongoDB & Couchbase Analytics.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.  — Richard Hamming The spiral of running the business, analyzing what to change & what to change to, and then changing the business is an eternal one. Do the right analysis, your...

June 23, 2020
Drumroll Please: A Trifecta of Trophies for Couchbase

Drumroll Please: A Trifecta of Trophies for Couchbase

How does an enterprise software company follow news of a substantial round of funding? With some great industry recognition, of course! I am excited to share that Couchbase was recently honored with multiple awards– for product innovation, customer feedback, and...

Example Architectures for Data Intensive Applications.

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...

June 14, 2020
Couchbase Data Platform Partner Training

Couchbase Data Platform Partner Training

Thanks to Binh Le, Jon Strabala & Keshav Murthy for contributing to this post. Introduction Couchbase provides a wide variety of self paced online courses as well as in-person (or virtual) training through both Couchbase’s training portal. Advent of open...

May 19, 2020
FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL

FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL

Couchbase is a JSON database that has now become an alternative to the traditional RDBMS. It has achieved this, not only by providing the industry-leading Key-Value store and the same query and ACID translation capabilities that organizations have come to...

April 25, 2020
Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts

Couchbase Intro for MongoDB Developers and NoSQL Experts

Six thousand years ago, the Sumerians invented writing for transaction processing — Gray & Reuter By any measure, MongoDB is a popular document-oriented JSON database. In the last dozen years, it has grown from its humble beginnings of a single...

April 25, 2020
Couchbase Training:  Program Update

Couchbase Training: Program Update

I joined Couchbase as Director of Technical Training last fall, and I’m excited to share with you some of the great things that have been going on in the training team over the past 5 months. Many of these projects...

April 16, 2020
Manage Time-To-Live (TTL) Documents with Couchbase N1QL

Manage Time-To-Live (TTL) Documents with Couchbase N1QL

There is one feature that I wish had existed with RDBMS, and that is the built-in support for setting a Time-To-Live value for the data records. In NoSQL databases, the support of TTL is very common. NoSQL databases were designed...

April 14, 2020
Couchbase and Revolut Win Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year

Couchbase and Revolut Win Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year

Recently, Couchbase and Revolut were jointly honored with the Anti-fraud Solution of the Year accolade at the prestigious FStech Awards. This was awarded in recognition of Revolut’s world-class fraud prevention system, Sherlock, and Couchbase’s enterprise-class NoSQL database with which Sherlock...

April 7, 2020