Category: Application Design
Building autoComplete or typeAhead functionality using Full Text Search
What is autoComplete? Autocomplete as the wikipedia says “Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing” It is also known as Suggestions or Type Ahead or...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
June 4, 2021
N1QL User Defined Functions
Introduction Couchbase Server 6.5 introduced User Defined Functions as a Developer Preview feature. N1QL is primarily a declarative language – where you ask what to get, and the language works out for you the actual method. While declarative languages have...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
December 14, 2020
Building Customer-Obsessed Database 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. Customer 360 NoSQL database development is a powerful approach to delivering these...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
December 1, 2020
Cost Based Optimization with Couchbase JSON database
Couchbase Query Cost Based Optimization (CBO) was released as a Developer Preview in Couchbase 6.5, and it is now ready for GA with Couchbase v7.0. While CBO is a ubiquitous feature with traditional RDBMS, and that users have come to...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 30, 2020
How To Migrate to Scopes and Collections in Couchbase 7.0
Scopes and Collections are a new feature introduced in Couchbase 7 that allow you to logically organize data within Couchbase. You should take advantage of scopes and collections for simpler mapping from RDBMS as well as consolidation of hundreds of...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 23, 2020
Scopes and Collections for Modern Multi-Tenant Applications: Couchbase 7.0
Couchbase 7.0 introduces Scopes and Collections to easily build and deploy microservice based multi-tenant applications. Scopes and Collections allow logical isolation of different types of data, independent lifecycle management and security control at multiple levels of granularity. Application developers will...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 17, 2020
Couchbase Transactions with N1QL
Couchbase introduced ACID transactions in its v6.5 release with the Couchbase SDKs, and this has now been extended to Couchbase N1QL Query in the upcoming release 7. A quick recap – Couchbase provides support for multi-document ACID transactions for its...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 17, 2020
N1QL Turns Five
As any parent of a five year old can attest, time flies when you’re having fun. Where did all the time go? That’s kind of how we feel with N1QL, the SQL for JSON query language. Today, thousands of developers,...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
October 6, 2020
Arrays in JSON: Modeling, Querying and Indexing Performance
Array is THE difference between the relational model and the JSON model. — Gerald Sangudi Abstract JSON array gives you flexibility in the type of elements, number of elements, size of the elements, and the depth of the elements. This...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
August 4, 2020
FIRST CLASS SQL for FULL-TEXT SEARCH
Over time, the database industry has realized full-text search and SQL are two sides of the same coin. Text search needs further query processing, query processing needs text search to efficiently filter for text patterns. The SQL databases have added...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
July 7, 2020
Example Architectures for Data Intensive Applications.
…a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. —William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style In the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, Martin Kleppmann has written about traits...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
June 14, 2020
Implement FHIR REST server with Couchbase
This is a follow up to my previous post that covered the topic of FHIR Data Model with Couchbase N1QL. In this blog, I will discuss the topic of how to implement the FHIR Search REST API Server over the...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
June 8, 2020