Tag: High Availability
High Availability Architecture: Requirements & Best Practices
What is high availability in cloud computing? High availability (HA) in cloud computing means ensuring that services and applications are always up and running, even if something goes wrong. It involves having backup systems, automatically switching to those backups if...
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...
Couchbase Capella Spring Release featuring Couchbase Server 7.2
To celebrate National Cloud Database Day, we are announcing the latest advancements of Couchbase Capella Spring 2023 release, and its imminent incorporation of Couchbase Server 7.2. These Capella advancements offer expanded use case support, programming environment integrations, scaling improvements, and...
Data Consistency Models & Performance: Couchbase vs. CockroachDB
Design decisions influenced by CAP Theorem The CAP theorem states that a database cannot simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees: Consistency (the latest information is always available everywhere) Availability (every read and write request receives a response) Partitioning...
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies
In this post, we review some important considerations for planning for business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Business continuity needs careful consideration when using Couchbase as a core business service. Today’s focus is on the application layer and the...
Powering the Gaming Industry’s Most Popular Titles with Couchbase
The gaming market is bigger than ever and growing. According to BusinessOfApps, over 55 billion games were downloaded in 2021 between Google Play and the Apple App Store alone, and in a recent blog on mobile gaming industry statistics, mobile...
Always-Available Real-Time Data With High Availability In Couchbase Analytics
As part of the Couchbase Server 7.1 release, Couchbase Analytics Service is very excited to announce the support of High Availability capability availability to ensure users can access data within Analytics Service collections/datasets when one or more Analytics nodes is...
Combine Clusters to Achieve High Availability
Whether on-premises or on the public cloud, Couchbase customers have a distinct set of needs: ACID transactions, high durable writes, high availability and high performance. Couchbase’s architecture helps meet these needs while also reducing pain for DevOps and DBAs (perhaps...
An Introduction to Edge Computing Architectures
If I asked five different people what “edge computing” is, I’d most certainly get five different answers. Confusingly, they’d probably all be right. Edge computing is a strategic architecture that’s growing in popularity, but its different permutations and its myriad...
Introducing XDCR Support for Scopes & Collections in Couchbase 7.0
Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) is a database essential. XDCR ensures database High Availability (HA), disaster recovery, and geo-locality. With the Couchbase Server 7.0 release, XDCR also supports new individual namespaces called Scopes and Collections within each database Bucket. Support...
Couchbase Mobile Offers Embedded Java Write Throughput and More
Couchbase Mobile extends the power of Couchbase to the edge, securely managing and syncing data from any cloud to edge devices or directly between edge devices. In this post, I discuss the main features in the Couchbase Lite and Sync...
Exercising Control on Quality of Service Using XDCR
XDCR, by design, provides customers the flexibility to tune the number of replications for a given bucket depending on the desired performance. New replication requires streaming all existing documents in the bucket, and, therefore, it exhibits a higher mutation rate...
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