Tag: databases

  • Using Hadoop and Couchbase

    My new article on using Hadoop with Couchbase is available now on the IBM developerWorks site. The article tells you how to integrate the massive map/reduce functionality offered by Hadoop with the query functionality offered in Couchbase. With th…

  • Getting Started with Couchbase Server Published!

    Having not published a book in years, I’ve just published my second book in as many months. Getting Started with Couchbase Server provides an overview of the main administration and user information that you need to install, setup, manage, and dev…

  • The Technology Behind Couchbase

    Couchbase Server is one product, but it’s made up of a combination of different components that work together in order to produce server product, including memcached and the spidermonkey JavaScript engine, and more recently the CouchDB engine for …

  • Tip: Couchbase Server Monitoring

    O’Reilly have published my top on the key stats to look out for when monitoring Couchbase Server: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2012/03/15/couchbase-server-monitoring/

  • Tip: Improving CouchDB View Performance

    O’Reilly have just published one of my tips on how to improve the performacne when accessing and using views in CouchDB 1.1: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2012/03/14/improving-couchdb-performance/#comments

  • Getting Started with CouchDB published!

    I’ve just published my first book for a few years. The book is Getting Started with CouchDB with O’Reilly. The book is a quick guide to everything you need to know to start working with and building applications with CouchDB. Some highlights of th…

  • Training for CouchDB at ApacheCon NA 2011

    I’m going to be at ApacheCon in Vancouver this year, 7th November, where I’ll be running a two-day course on developing applications using CouchDB. More info on the course itself here.

  • Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 2

    The follow-up blog post on moving your MySQL applications to CouchDB has been posted on the CouchOne blog. Part 2 digs into a bit more detail on the specifics of views, and how to perform some of the more common operations used in MySQL, such as p…

  • Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 1

    I’ve started a little series on how to migrate your MySQL applications and databases over to CouchDB. Most of the process is about how you think about your data, not about the database itself, the application, or the interface to the database stor…

  • Reorganizing the documentation

    Those of you that know the documentation well will be aware of the old page we used to have for the MySQL documentation. It was huge, and over the years we’d done a number of things to try and improve the layout and make it easier to find what you…