Category: Full Text Search
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
Searching Collections With Full-Text Search
Collections provide the ability to namespace data within a Couchbase bucket. Instead of all documents having to reside in a single shared namespace, collections provide users a built-in capability to group those documents together rather than having to...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 17, 2020
Web console(s) for Full-Text Indexes
This article highlights new features and certain enhancements in the web console for Couchbase’s Full-Text Search service to configure and search indexes as Couchbase server moves to supporting collections with the 7.0 release. Full-Text Search (FTS) refers to techniques for...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 17, 2020
7 Useful Tips for Your Full-Text Search Production Systems
Creating the right search index and tuning its various configurations is very essential to the smooth working of any Full-Text Search production systems. These operational aspects play a key role in improving the indexing and querying performance of...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 9, 2020
Taming the Gerrymander with Geospatial Search
The Basics Before you read any further, please take a few minutes and read the excellent post on geospatial search in Couchbase, as published by my friend and colleague Brian Kane: https://staging.couchbase.com/blog/geospatial-search-how-do-i-use-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/ Go ahead; I’ll wait. Now that you’re back,...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
November 4, 2020
Geospatial Search, How Do I Use Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
Introduction Couchbase Full Text Search (FTS) is a great tool for indexing and querying geospatial data. In this article, I’ll present a geospatial search use case and demonstrate the various ways that we can perform a search of location data...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
October 30, 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, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
August 12, 2020
Text Analysis within a Full-Text Search Engine
Full-Text Search refers to techniques for searching text content within a document or a collection of documents that hold textual content. A Full-Text search engine examines all the textual content within documents as it tries to match a single search...
James oquendo, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
August 10, 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
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, Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
June 26, 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