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Couchbase Server hits 1M writes/sec with 3B items with 50 nodes on Google Cloud
High Performance with Couchbase Server on Google Cloud Couchbase Server is an open source, multi-model NoSQL distributed database that incorporates a JSON document database and key-value store. Couchbase Server is built on a memory-centric architecture designed to deliver consistent high...
New Model for Database Scalability with Couchbase Server 4.0…
Over the years, one of the top sites I enjoy reading is HighScalability.com. I recently posted a new article there, covering how Couchbase Server 4.0 will extend the scalibility models you can choose from. If you'd like to know things like, what the walls &...
Read-Your-Own-Write? 50x Faster in Couchbase Server 3.0 with Incremental Map/Reduce Views
RYOW (read your own write) can be tricky with some of the NoSQL databases but not with Couchbase Server. With Couchbase Server active vbucket takes the writes and reads by default (though you can read from replicas if you like...
Database Change Protocol: The super-conductor that wires Couchbase Server 3.0 replication
Database Change Protocol (DCP) is the core replication protocol for version 3.0 and is used to connect nodes and clusters across geo distributed data centers. In this post, we’ll dive deep into its workings and how it enables higher availability, performance and scale with Couchbase...
Enhanced Windows Platform Support, Greater Performance & Improved Data Security! Couchbase Server 3.0.2 is here…
Today, Couchbase is pleased to announce the availability of Couchbase Server 3.0.2, a release building upon the 3.0 product family. With 1000s of hours in production use across many global enterprises, and with 100s of quality improvements in 3.0.2 that...
Lifecycle of a Node in Couchbase Server Demystified: Adding & Removing Nodes, Rebalancing & Failover
One of the top attributes of Couchbase Server is its simplicity when it comes to deploying and managing a cluster. Changing the topology of a cluster can be done simply within couchbase through a few actions and few states AND...
Couchbase Connect San Fran 2014 – stop by and say hi…
Hi there, I’ll be at Couchbase Connect San Fran on oct 6th and 7th. If you are there, make sure to stop by my talks and say hi! Deep Dive: What’s New in Couchbase Server 3.0 – October 6 @...
Cost of Computing, Large Energy Consumption, Massive Cost of Running Data Center… AND How Couchbase can Help You Lower All
I spent the last few years at a number of companies with large computational needs. Both at Microsoft’s Azure and Twitter, cost of computation (a.k.a the $s it takes to run your systems) was a key metric of success. It...
CAP Theorem and Couchbase Server… But this time with XDCR
CAP is well known to many so I won’t spend the time to explain the intro material here but wanted to correctly identify a misconception that came up a few times in conversations recently. Here is the punchline for this...
ForestDB Storage Engine Available for Couchbase Server and Couchbase Lite
ForestDB is a next-generation storage engine defined by an open source project that started implementation a year ago. This embedded, key-value system is built to address the main drawbacks of typical B+-Tree index structure to push disk IO performance to...
Better Data Protection in Couchbase Server 3.0
With Couchbase Server 3.0, we have introduced a great new protocol for data synchronization named DCP (database change protocol). DCP powers many facilities within Couchbase Server including maintaining replicas, rebalance, node recovery, back-ups, indexing all the way to XDCR replication....