While looking up the notes for the upcoming Denormalised NoSQL Conference, I found the tutorial I did in May 2012 on Couchbase:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/nosql/tutorial-1-couchbase
While looking up the notes for the upcoming Denormalised NoSQL Conference, I found the tutorial I did in May 2012 on Couchbase:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/nosql/tutorial-1-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 this article you also get a live demo of the process in action, and an intro video for the problems at hand we are trying to solve:
Read: Using Hadoop with Couchbase
Fortunately the article was also chosen as a feature article for the entire developerWorks site, and came with call picture of an elephant sitting on a couch!
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 develop against Couchbase Server.
In the book, I’ve tried to cover the installation, and then the main admin tasks, such as rebalancing and expanding your cluster, along with backups and restore.
Also in the book is some basic information on developing an application, including using the main operations and how you store and retreieve information in the cluster.
The book is on Couchbase Server 1.8, so no views, but there should be enough for you get going.
Get more information here.
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 storage and index creation.
An article covering more of the detail is available here:
http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2012/03/01/the-technology-behind-couchbase/
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
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 paging and aggregation in your CouchDB view.
You can read Part 2 here
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 storage. There are some use cases for data storage that lend themselves to the CouchDB document model that provides some advantages over the table-based structure in MySQL.
The first part of the series is Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 1.
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 wanted. We had in-age links to jump to the different documentation types, and the old topic table that allowed you to jump to specific parts of the documentation.
The problem was that the more documentation that we produced (and there are over a thousand docs in various formats now), the bigger the page got. When we added the individual topic guides, for example, we trebled the size of the page by adding the links for each individual topic guide.
Ultimately that makes it increasingly difficult for you guys to find what you are looking for, despite the quick links and other elements.
We’ve now changed all this and split the single, big, monolithic page of *every* piece of documentation that we create, and instead spread the documentation out over a number of pages. The actual documentation itself remains the same, and we still have the same range of documentation (in fact, it’s increased slightly as I’ve been able to squeeze in a few more formats and topic guide docs), but everything is still there.
The key is the new sub-navigation bar that the Web team have provided us with:
The pages have been split out as follows:
We are aware of a few issues with some of the links to some documentation, and I’m working right now to address those problems, but all the documentation should be there and available. If it isn’t, please report a Bug.
Feels like a long time ago, but my talk at the MySQL User’s Conference back in April 09 on running MySQL Multiple Times to get better performance is now available online at YouTube. The original PDF of the presentation is available here.
View it here: YouTube – Improving Performance by Running MySQL Multiple Times