Category: Analytics
Streamline Couchbase Analytics with User-Defined Functions (UDF’s)
Introduction One of our exciting new features in Couchbase Server 7.0 Beta is support for User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in the Analytics Service. UDFs are reusable and parameterizable N1QL queries that can be used to modularize queries and increase code reuse....
james.oquendo
January 4, 2021
Analytics and BI with Couchbase Cloud – Visualizing Datasets
Couchbase Cloud Analytics Service The Couchbase Analytics Service, a cornerstone feature of Couchbase Server 6.6, is now available on Couchbase Cloud. This means you can take advantage of a powerful MPP-based analytics service that provides a parallel data-management capability; allowing...
james.oquendo
December 10, 2020
Collections – simplify your analysis with Couchbase Analytics
Introduction Couchbase is excited to announce a new product feature of Collections as part of its beta release 7.0 and support for collections has been extended to Analytics Service as well. Collections and scopes are logical containers within a bucket....
james.oquendo
December 1, 2020
Query Admission Control in Couchbase Analytics
Couchbase Analytics is optimized to perform ad-hoc analytical queries, which typically process more data than one can fit in memory. It employs a massively parallel processing (MPP) engine that attempts to fully utilize the available processing power in any given...
james.oquendo
November 27, 2020
When Couchbase meets Splunk: the real-time, AI-driven data analytics platform
This article builds on top of the session “When Couchbase meets Splunk, the real-time, AI-driven data analytics platform” presented at Couchbase Connect Online 2020 by James Powenski and Andrea Vasco. The Wall of Confusion Ever since I was a University...
james.oquendo
October 15, 2020
What’s New and Improved in Couchbase Server 6.6
Couchbase Server 6.6 is now generally available with exciting new enhancements that augment our Analytics, Query, Search, and Eventing Services as well as our backup, recovery and tooling capabilities. These enhancements improve developer productivity, simplify cloud deployments, and enable operational...
james.oquendo
August 12, 2020
Fully Configured Couchbase on Red Hat OpenShift Under Five Minutes
I recently did a presentation at Red Hat Users Group – North Texas on Couchbase NoSQL Operator on OpenShift. Thank you to the Red Hat Dallas team for extending the invitation for a joint session – Sam Nicholls, John Gammon, and Nick Wallace. In the...
james.oquendo
June 26, 2020
Couchbase Data Platform Partner Training
Thanks to Binh Le, Jon Strabala & Keshav Murthy for contributing to this post. Introduction Couchbase provides a wide variety of self paced online courses as well as in-person (or virtual) training through both Couchbase’s training portal. Advent of open...
james.oquendo
May 19, 2020
Couchbase for Oracle Developers – Part 4 : Data types
Link to the series home page: https://staging.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-oracle-developers-part-1-overview/ As part of data remodeling, while moving from the relational model to the JSON model, you’ll have to consider the data type mapping. In Oracle, you’ll have to create and declare the types...
james.oquendo
March 25, 2020
Part 2: N1QL: To Query or To Analyze?
When you need to query documents using SQL, there are two options available in Couchbase. The Query service and the Analytics service. Our blog, N1QL: To Query or To Analyze? provides a detailed overview of both services. I highly recommend...
james.oquendo
March 4, 2020
Simple dataviz with N1QL and Google Sheets.
Do whatever it takes to present the data to aid analysis and thinking. — Edward Tufte How do you create graphs like these if you don’t already have some ready-made cool dataviz tool? You can run queries to wrangle the...
james.oquendo
January 7, 2020
Utilizing Multiple Disks to Speed Up Couchbase Analytics Queries
Typical ad-hoc analytical queries have to process much more data that can fit in memory. Consequently, those queries tend to be I/O bound. When the Analytics service was introduced in Couchbase 6.0, it allowed users to specify multiple “Analytics Disk...
james.oquendo
November 17, 2019