Category: Analytics
What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1
Can a Database Fight Inflation? Introducing Couchbase Server 7.1 This year, I’ve asked myself, how can a database help fight inflation? The answer is to make efficiency improvements in the database that outpace inflation. For as long as I’ve worked...
Dataworkz Accelerates Customer 360 Adoption With Couchbase Capella
Like most B2B and B2C companies, gaining a deeper understanding of customer behaviors and desires has become essential to commercial success. However, customer data is trapped in different systems and data stores, limiting the actionable insights that the business can...
Creating Python and JavaScript User Defined Functions For Geospatial Queries
SQL++ queries can access data stored in your Couchbase cluster in a variety of ways. There are situations where having the business logic as part of your data queries can also be beneficial. SQL++ supports this with User Defined Functions...
Optimize Performance of External Analytics Collections in Couchbase
It is crucial to plan for performance optimization and resource utilization now that there is support for external Couchbase Analytics collections (AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage). External Couchbase Analytics collections read the data from external storage and do not...
Leveraging your ML models with Couchbase Analytics User Defined Functions (UDF)
With Couchbase 7.0 you’re now capable of allowing integration of Python UDFs with Couchbase Analytics. In Part 1 of this blog series, we covered the essentials for getting Couchbase and the Analytics for Machine Learning (ML) set up. ML has...
Deliver a winning customer experience for the Super Bowl
Super Bowl LVI is coming up this Sunday, with the Cincinnati Bengals facing off against the Los Angeles Rams on their home turf in Inglewood, California. Over 70,000 fans are expected to descend upon SoFi Stadium to watch the event...
Analyzing Statistics for Cost-Based Optimization in Couchbase 7.0
Couchbase Server 7.0 (Enterprise Edition) introduced a Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO). Previous versions of Couchbase Server used a Rule-Based Optimizer (RBO). Couchbase Server has naturally evolved from RBO to CBO like most major relational database systems. The CBO uses cost estimates...
Couchbase Catalogs for the SQL Server DBA
In this post, we introduce System Catalogs in Couchbase and walk through a specific use case compared to SQL Server. If you’re like me, after 20 years of working with SQL Server, you tend to pick up on things that...
How Couchbase Simplifies Data Science (Part 1)
This post was co-authored by Karen Yuan, a High School Intern. Data science extracts knowledge from data and applies that knowledge to solve problems. In the next two posts, we will learn how the Couchbase Data Platform can meet various...
What to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
A critical zero-day exploit, known as Log4Shell, affecting the Apache Log4j utility (CVE-2021-44228) was made public on December 9, 2021. As soon as Couchbase became aware of this issue, we investigated it immediately within our product and security teams, and...
Couchbase Server 7.0.2 according to the rule of 3’s
Couchbase Server 7.0.2 is Available A few months ago, I could not wait for the latest release of Couchbase Server. Its number was seven, and my house number is 77. I felt that seven was a lucky number. But beyond...
ML Meets NoSQL: Integrating Python User-Defined Functions with SQL++ for Analytics
After conversations with our customers about the delay in obtaining analytical insights from their Python-based machine learning models, we set out to create a seamless pipeline from Python to Couchbase Analytics that returns faster insights in real time. Introduction With...