Category: Analytics

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...

Keshav Murthy June 23, 2020
Couchbase Analytics: Customers’ Moments of Truth Revealed!

Couchbase Analytics: Customers’ Moments of Truth Revealed!

Introduction I recently joined Couchbase’s product team to lead Couchbase Analytics. This Analytics Service enables our customers to measure near-real time business operations, derive insights from data, and drive agile decisions to expand business growth. Within my first few weeks...

Idris Motiwala June 16, 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...

Idris Motiwala May 19, 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...

Keshav Murthy April 25, 2020
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types

Link to the series home page: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-2-architecture/ As part of data remodeling, while moving from the relational model to the JSON model, you’ll have to consider the data type mapping. In Oracle, you’ll have to create and declare the types...

Keshav Murthy March 25, 2020
Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?

Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?

When you need to query documents using SQL, there are two options available in Couchbase. The Query service and the Analytics service. Our blog, N1QL: To Query or To Analyze? provides a detailed overview of both services. I highly recommend...

Evan Pease March 4, 2020
Extend Couchbase Analytics with Power BI using CData

Extend Couchbase Analytics with Power BI using CData

Extend Couchbase Analytics with Power BI using CData. This article will guide you through the steps needed to setup the connection from Couchbase Analytics to Power BI Desktop using the CData Power BI driver for Couchbase. More details regarding this...

Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved

Announcing Couchbase Server 6.5 GA – What’s New and Improved

We are pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Server 6.5 GA with stellar features that lead the innovation in the NoSQL database market. We are excited to once again pioneer some of the most sought-after relational capabilities in the...

Simple dataviz with N1QL and Google Sheets.

Simple dataviz with N1QL and Google Sheets.

Do whatever it takes to present the data to aid analysis and thinking.  — Edward Tufte How do you create graphs like these if you don’t already have some ready-made cool dataviz tool? You can run queries to wrangle the...

Keshav Murthy January 7, 2020
Using Multiple Disks to Speed Up Couchbase Analytics Queries

Using Multiple Disks to Speed Up Couchbase Analytics Queries

Typical ad-hoc analytical queries have to process much more data than can fit in memory. Consequently, those queries tend to be I/O bound. When the Analytics service was introduced in Couchbase 6.0, it allowed users to specify multiple “Analytics Disk...

Extend Couchbase Analytics with SQL Server using CData

Extend Couchbase Analytics with SQL Server using CData

Extend Couchbase Analytics with SQL Server using CData. This article will guide you through the steps needed to setup the connection from Couchbase Analytics to SQL Server using the CData ODBC driver for Couchbase. More details regarding this driver can...

Deep Dive: Window functions in Couchbase Analytics

Deep Dive: Window functions in Couchbase Analytics

Couchbase Server 6.5 brings a host of new features [1] to the leading NoSQL database. One of the key additions to the N1QL query language is support for window functions. These functions were originally introduced in the SQL:2003 standard and provide...