Tag: High Availability
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...
Announcing General Availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.1
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.1. This release follows on the heels of Couchbase Mobile 2.0 which was released earlier this year. Couchbase Mobile extends the Couchbase Data Platform to the edge, securely managing and...
Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5
Couchbase further improves high availability for mission-critical deployments and reduces operator intervention. Couchbase enhances the detection of common disk failures and automatically fails over the node with bad disks saving operators time and energy. It also handles multiple server failures...
Intro to Couchbase HA/DR: Java Multi-Cluster Aware Client
In this post, I’m going to take a look at a sample application that uses the Couchbase Server Multi-Cluster Aware (MCA) Java client. This client goes hand-in-hand with Couchbase’s Cross-Data Center Replication (XDCR) capabilities. XDCR supports flexible replication of data...