Tag: Architecture
Delivering Customer-Oriented AI Applications
Customer obsession is a powerful concept for any company. Whether your customers are internal or external users of your platform – every experience should be timely and meaningful. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with Customer 360 NoSQL database development is a...
Consolidate Your Databases to Eliminate Data Sprawl, Reduce Complexity and Lower Costs
The concept of consolidation is simple, and applying its principles can bring immense benefit to any organization. But what does consolidation mean in the context of database technology? Google defines consolidation as “the action or process of combining a number of...
Quer levar seu banco de dados para o próximo nível? (Portuguese)
[See English version of this post] Saiba por que dezenas de milhares de organizações adotaram bancos de dados NoSQL como #Couchbase para melhorar a resiliência, o desempenho e a estabilidade, ao mesmo tempo em que reduzem o risco e a...
A Guide to Backend Databases
The backend is the part of an application responsible for storing and processing data. It’s the opposite of the front end, the part of the application that users interact with. The backend typically comprises servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), and...
Cloud-Native vs Cloud-Agnostic: Which Approach is the Best Fit?
While there’s no longer a major debate around whether or not you should move to the cloud, there’s still not a consensus around whether or not you should go with a cloud-native or cloud-agnostic approach when building your application. We’re...
Why Choose a NoSQL Database? There Are Many Great Reasons
NoSQL, short for “Not only SQL,” is a term used for database systems that store information in a variety of formats to support requirements that traditional relational (or SQL) databases have difficulties addressing. Legacy relational systems were designed to minimize...
Cloud-Native Database Automation: Autonomous Operator 2.3.0 Now Available
We’re pleased to announce the release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.3.0. The central theme of this release is ‘simplify and innovate’. We are introducing significant architectural enhancements to simplify DevOps and development. New data organization features from Couchbase Server 7,...
Event Broker Integration with Couchbase, Solace & Java
In the previous blog post we discussed how Couchbase can seamlessly integrate into an Event-Driven Architecture. Using the Couchbase Eventing Service, document mutations can be published to a Solace PubSub+ queue from where the data is made available to subscribing...
Energy at the Edge: How the Right Database Can Lower Our Gas Prices
What can a database do to help an oil and gas company lower rising prices at the pump? It turns out, a lot! In this post, I explore some data-related factors of rapidly increasing energy costs and how Couchbase can...
How did digital architects deal with the COVID-19 challenge?
How did digital architects deal with the COVID-19 challenge, and what is their blueprint for the future? In Couchbase’s fourth annual digital transformation survey, we have already looked at the challenges to digital transformation in 2020, and the roles of...
Hybrid Cloud Services & Computing Models
What are Hybrid Cloud Services? Everyone has heard the term “hybrid cloud,” but what exactly are hybrid cloud services, and why are they becoming so important to enterprise architectures? And what’s the best way to take advantage of a hybrid...
Distributed Databases: An Overview
Distributed Databases apply the principles of distributed computing to storing data. The simplest example is a database which stores data on two (or more) servers connected by a network. This “cluster” can be accessed and managed as if it was...