Category: Performance
Setting Up Cross-VPC XDCR Between Amazon EKS Clusters
In modern distributed systems, the ability to replicate data between separate environments is crucial for ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization. Couchbase’s XDCR (Cross Data Center Replication) feature allows seamless replication of data between clusters, enabling robust data...
Rakuten Modernizes Advertising Services, Minimizes TCO with Couchbase
Today’s leading retailers and e-commerce companies are faced with many IT challenges, including the increasing demand to deliver fast, personalized user experiences. At the same time, they have to manage growing volumes of users and data, while reducing costs and...
Scalability vs. Elasticity: A Comparison
Scalability and elasticity help organizations achieve greater flexibility and efficiency in their IT infrastructure. However, scalability and elasticity have distinct differences that organizations should be aware of when deciding which approach to take. This blog post will break down the...
Making GCP Cloud Function Calls Faster
Recently my wife and I have been watching reruns of some TV programs containing Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Clarkson’s Farm). Despite the buffoonery he is quite a clever chap, although will likely be remembered for thinking “Speed...
Disaster Recovery with Couchbase Mobile – Sync Gateway and Cross Data Center Replication
Planning for Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) is vital for any modern application, and that applies equally to any application with a mobile or edge computing component. Service outages or downtime can cause serious impacts to a business...
Vector Search Performance: The Rise of Recall
Introducing vector search (KNN), with its distance-based similarity scoring, into the existing Search paradigm necessitated a shift in how we thought about “relevant” results and how to measure them. Text based indexes use tf-idf as their scoring mechanism with the...
Couchbase Server 7.6 Awesomeness Unleashed: The Top 10 Features Every SRE Must Know!
Hey SRE Champions! Couchbase has just dropped a game-changing update, and we’re here to immerse you in real-world stories that highlight the top 10 features turning System Administrators, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) into superheroes. Join us for a...
Rebalance Reimagined: Faster Scaling of Couchbase’s Index Service With File Transfers
Faster scaling of database resources is essential for maintaining efficient and performant databases, especially with the increased pressure of data ingestion, growing query demands, and the need to handle failovers seamlessly. As application-driven query traffic is primarily handled by index...
BR-DGE Makes Checkout Process Flow Smoothly for Merchants and Shoppers
In the financial services sector, legacy institutions face growing competition from a field of fintech companies that offer personalized products at lower costs. Fintech innovation is largely driven by the ability to access and harness new forms of data. But,...
What is Cloud Monitoring? Types, Best Practices, Tools
Cloud monitoring is the process of monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting cloud-based systems, applications, and infrastructure to ensure they’re running smoothly, efficiently, and securely. It involves collecting data and metrics from various sources, such as cloud computing platforms, applications, and services....
Couchbase Capella: Advantages in Speed, Functionality, and TCO Over Redis
Altoros, an IT consulting organization known for database comparison, has released their latest independent benchmark, commissioned by Couchbase. The benchmark assesses the DBaaS solutions provided by Couchbase and Redis. Using the widely recognized YCSB standard for benchmarking NoSQL databases, this...
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part blog. Part 1 discusses the Index service scaling improvements implemented in Couchbase Server 7.2.2. This second part focuses on reducing memory and disk I/O overheads. Reducing Memory Overheads for Indexer Process Couchbase...