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What’s New and Improved in Couchbase Server 6.6
Couchbase Server 6.6 is now generally available with exciting new enhancements that augment our Analytics, Query, Search, and Eventing Services as well as our backup, recovery and tooling capabilities. These enhancements improve developer productivity, simplify cloud deployments, and enable operational...
Cloud Storage Backups with Couchbase (AWS S3 Object Stores)
Couchbase 6.6 introduced the ability to back up the document database directly to AWS S3 cloud computing storage or any other S3-compatible Object Store. Using the cbbackupmgr backup utility you can now specify an S3 bucket as a destination for...
NoSQL Document Database Replication – MongoDB vs. Couchbase
Replication has been a crucial part of Database Systems for decades for providing availability and disaster recovery. In recent times, with the evolution of distributed databases to address the need for highly available, scalable and globally distributed deployments operating across...
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
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...
Advanced UI Statistics in Couchbase Server 6.5
Statistics in Couchbase Server has been the source of truth for understanding the performance, monitoring usage, and troubleshooting operations for administrators. In 6.5, we are making some integral updates to the display of stats in the Couchbase Server Web Console,...
Node-to-Node Encryption with Couchbase Server 6.5
With security on everyone’s mind, organizations need to run sensitive workloads under stringent security and compliance standards. Couchbase 6.5 preview brings several new security capabilities, and node-to-node encryption has been a top wish list item for many customers. In this...
Managing LDAP groups for external users in 6.5
In the last blog, we described a new feature in Couchbase Server 6.5 called Couchbase groups. In this blog, we will discuss about the new LDAP group capability in Couchbase Server 6.5, along with easy to follow steps to get...
Managing Couchbase Users via Groups in 6.5
In large organizations, management of security across the enterprise becomes more and more challenging as the number of apps and users grow. Having a role based access control model enables you to fine control what users get access to. However,...
Cipher Suites in Couchbase Server 6.5
For many, “Cryptography” is the little green lock icon next to the web address of their favorite websites, and for others, they might recall the TLS vulnerabilities that have hit in recent years. Data is today’s digital gold, and in...
Enhanced Data Protection with Couchbase Server 6.5
With 6.5, we have made some tremendous improvements to our backup & restore technology. These improvements are optimized to enhance backup performance, consistency and storage requirements. Performance Improved performance (rate of backup & restore) with backup has been the most...
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...