How to choose an adequate way to get data from Couchbase

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Hi, all
I am new to couchbase and have some questions with getting data from couchbase.
There are many way to get data like

  1. Retrieving documents

JsonDocument walter = bucket.get(“walter”);
System.out.println("Found: " + walter);

  1. Working with views

  2. Working with N1QL

  3. another way(I’m not sure)?

Does any one can give me a simple explanation when to use those ways in specific situation?

I’m confused on using which way to retrieve data(specific situation for specific way).

I’m working on Java SDK.

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You’ve pretty much listed all the APIs. Typical use-cases for each API would be:

  • Key-Value - Use when you already know the key of the document(s) you are interested in. Typically the fastest access method.
  • Map/Reduce - Used for pre-defined views on your data, where there’s small number of common ways you want o view your data; as each view needs to be pre-defined on the cluster.
  • N1QL - Used for ad-hoc queries. Queries can be dynamic, only requires indexes to be pre-defined.
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Thanks for your explanation.
When it comes to query a data with some conditions(ex. students who belongs to class A), which way is better in performance?
Using N1QL(WHERE class = ‘A’ ) or using another way to get the doc ID list and then retrieve it with Key-Value(bucket.get…)?