Category: Couchbase Analytics

Analytics Explain Plan – Part 1
Analytics Explain Plan – Part 1

Co-author:  Till Westmann,  Senior Director, Engineering Introduction Couchbase Analytics is the “newest kid on the block” amongst all the services available in Couchbase Server. The new service is providing rapid time to insight in many use cases like ship to...

Customer 360 – Part 4 – Analyzing Your Data
Customer 360 – Part 4 – Analyzing Your Data

Add microservices, full-text-search, and analytics to your Customer 360 solution to enable your data nerds.

Window functions in Couchbase Analytics
Window functions in Couchbase Analytics

Co-author:  Till Westmann,  Senior Director, Engineering The bits for Couchbase 6.5, the upcoming release of Couchbase Server, are now available. The Analytics service, which supports efficient parallel query processing, has added support for support for window functions defined in the...

Couchbase 6.5 – Scan Consistency in Analytics
Couchbase 6.5 – Scan Consistency in Analytics

Since the GA back in Nov 2018, Couchbase Analytics is being used in multiple verticals for rapid time to insight – ad-hoc analysis by a payment provider,  shopping cart analysis by an e-tailer, next gen ticket booking engine by a...

Extend Couchbase Analytics with RapidMiner using CData
Extend Couchbase Analytics with RapidMiner using CData

This article will guide you through the steps needed to setup the connection from RapidMiner to Couchbase Analytics using the CData JDBC driver for Couchbase.

Cost Based Optimizer for Couchbase N1QL (SQL for JSON)
Cost Based Optimizer for Couchbase N1QL (SQL for JSON)

Authors & Engineering Team: Bingjie Miao, Keshav Murthy,  Marco Greco, Prathibha Bisarahalli. Couchbase, Inc.  A rule-based optimizer knows rules for everything and cost for nothing – Oscar Wilde Abstract Couchbase is a distributed JSON database. It provides distributed data processing,...

Analytics – Love the Doc Model You’re With
Analytics – Love the Doc Model You’re With

N1QL for Analytics allows for real-time analytics on data without altering the data model. Unnest and join multiple arrays and join with scalar fields.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL in NoSQL Databases
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL in NoSQL Databases

Compare and contrast SQL language support in Cassandra, CosmosDB, Couchbase, and MongoDB via their respective implementations. 

Build Real-time Dashboards – Couchbase Analytics & Tableau
Build Real-time Dashboards – Couchbase Analytics & Tableau

Set up a Couchbase Analytics on an Operational cluster in under 5 clicks and create a real-time data visualization dashboard with Tableau.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL

Visit the post to learn why SQL is called a successful 4th generation language. Check out Data Models and it's implementation.

N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?

Note: This recommendation note was written in collaboration with Till Westmann and Mike Carey, who lead the Couchbase analytics R&D. [Part 2 of this article by Even Pease is at: https://www.couchbase.com/blog/part-2-n1ql-to-query-or-to-analyze/] Couchbase’s Query and Analytics Services both support N1QL (SQL...

JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy
JSON to Insights: Fast and Easy

Co-author:  Sitaram Vemulapalli, Principal Engineer, Couchbase R&D. “The answer my friend is hiding in JSON” – Bob Dylan There are a lot of public JSON datasets and then is awesome JSON datasets. Every company, including yours, has stored a lot of...