Tag: Secondary Indexing
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part blog. Part 1 discusses the Index service scaling improvements implemented in Couchbase Server 7.2.2. This second part focuses on reducing memory and disk I/O overheads. Reducing Memory Overheads for Indexer Process Couchbase...
Amit Kulkarni
October 23, 2023
Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service
Modern applications are implemented as a set of a large number of microservices. Each such microservice may run independently of many other microservices. Such applications expect underlying databases to support multi-tenancy. Couchbase Server 7.0 has introduced Scopes and Collections to...
Amit Kulkarni
December 14, 2021
New Features in Index Service in Couchbase Server 5.5
In the last major release, Couchbase Server 5.0, we introduced Plasma – New Storage Engine and also the support for Index Replicas in the Index Service. We have continued to build on these new features in our upcoming release. The themes...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
March 16, 2018
Comparing Couchbase Views with Couchbase N1QL & Indexing.
As Couchbase data platform evolved, services like N1QL and GSI Indexing handled the use cases Couchbase VIEWS used to handle and much more. It’s logical to ask the comparative question between them. Here is a table comparing both. This is...
Keshav Murthy
December 4, 2017
Database Indexing Best Practices
Prelude: What is Database Indexing? Asynchronous Indexing: Global Secondary Indexes in databases — Couchbase, for example — can be created, updated and deleted without impacting the reads and writes on the JSON documents in Data nodes. This means that index-specific...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
November 16, 2017
Blazing Fast Index Performance with Plasma
In the earlier post, we got an opportunity to introduce Plasma as the new performant storage engine that powers Global Secondary Indexes in Couchbase 5.0(beta out!). We saw some of the features of Plasma and how it is designed with...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
September 22, 2017
How to transition from Equivalent Indexes to Index Replicas?
In the previous post, we saw the benefits of using index replicas over equivalent indexes. Let’s say you are on Couchbase Server 4.x and have the following 3 equivalent indexes spread across 3 nodes; and with Couchbase 5.0 Beta available,...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
August 19, 2017
Diving into Couchbase Index Replicas
With Couchbase Server 4.x, customers used to create Equivalent Indexes to satisfy the twin requirements of keeping the indexes highly available and to load balance the N1QL queries. What this meant was that the exact same index definition was used...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
August 14, 2017
Using the New Plasma Storage Engine for Couchbase Indexes
After two generations of success using ForestDB, the team responsible for Couchbase indexes has unveiled a new, blazing fast base storage engine: Plasma. In this post, we’ll introduce you to its features and benefits and what you can expect when...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
July 4, 2017
High Performance NOSQL Query Consistency with Couchbase 4.5
High Performance Consistency When using Couchbase as your system of record we provide a best in class indexing experience using our global secondary indexes and workload isolation through dedicated indexing nodes. We’ve improved that experience even further in Couchbase 4.5...
Todd Greenstein
May 10, 2016