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Couchbase


Couchbase-Server is an opensource, distributed (shared-nothing) NoSQL document-oriented databse. It is desgined for interactive applications involving multiple users and concurrency operations. Couchbase server provides key-value or JSON document access scaled from one single machine to multiple machines. Couchbase server supports the Memcached client protocol and provides extra features like disk persistence, data replication, live cluster reconfiguration, rebalancing and multi-tenancy with data partitioning.[04]

Source Code
https://github.com/couchbase/manifest[02]
Developer
Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2010 [12]
Former Name
Membase
Project Types
Commercial, Open Source
Written in
C, C++, Erlang, Go
Supported Languages
C, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python
Derived From
CouchDB
Compatible With
Memcached
Operating Systems
Linux, macOS, Windows
License
Apache v2

Database Entry

Couchbase


Couchbase-Server is an opensource, distributed (shared-nothing) NoSQL document-oriented databse. It is desgined for interactive applications involving multiple users and concurrency operations. Couchbase server provides key-value or JSON document access scaled from one single machine to multiple machines. Couchbase server supports the Memcached client protocol and provides extra features like disk persistence, data replication, live cluster reconfiguration, rebalancing and multi-tenancy with data partitioning.[04]

History[04]


In 2010, the origination of Couchbase, Membase, was developed by a company called NorthScale which was founded by developers from Memcached project.

In February, 2011, the Membase project founders and Membase, Inc. merged with CouchOne(a company with many engineers behind CouchDB) as a new company called Couchbase, Inc.

In January 2012, Couchbase Server 1.8 was released and 1.8 was the first version after rename from Membase.

In December 2012, CouchBase Server 2.0 was released. New features like JSON new document store, indexing and querying, incremental MapReduce and replication across data centers are added.

Compression[03]


Couchbase Server (Enterprise Edition) applies data compression to documents with open-source library Snappy. It provides three modes of compression.
Off. The Couchbase Server decompresses the document if it is compressed, and stores the uncompressed document in memory but recompresses it when storing on disk. Couchbase server sends the document in uncompressed form. * Passive. When Couchbase Server receives the compressed document, it stores the compressed document in memory and disk. Also, the documents are sent in compressed form.
Active. Couchbase Server stores and sends compressed document even the document is uncompressed when it was received.

Concurrency Control[05]


Couchbase Server offers both optimistic and pessimistic locking to guarantee concurrency.

Data Model[06]


The documents stored in Couchbase Server are in JSON or binary format.

Hardware Acceleration[07]


Not Supported

Indexes


Storage Architecture


Storage Organization[08]


Couchbase Server uses Couchstore to store core data operations. Each vBucket is represented as a separate Couchstore file in the file system. Couchstore uses a B+tree structure to quickly access items through their keys. Couchstore uses an append-only write model for efficient and safe writes.

Stored Procedures[09]


"Prepared queries" is supported in Couchbase Server which is close to the Stored Procedures.

System Architecture


Views[10][11]


Three views are supported by Couchbase Server: MapReduce views, Spatial views and Global Secondary Indexes (GSI) views.

Citations

12 sources
  1. Couchbase | Home couchbase.com
  2. GitHub - couchbase/manifest: Top-level source repository for Couchbase Server source code and build projects · GitHub github.com
  3. Couchbase Documentation | Couchbase Docs couchbase.com
  4. Couchbase Server - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
  5. Data | Couchbase Docs couchbase.com
  6. The Couchbase Data Model | Couchbase Docs couchbase.com Dead — Check Archive
  7. System Resource Requirements | Couchbase Docs couchbase.com
  8. Storage Properties | Couchbase Docs couchbase.com
  9. https://www.couchbase.com/forums/t/stored-procedures-in-n1ql/3551/7 couchbase.com Dead — Check Archive
  10. Index Service | Couchbase Docs couchbase.com
  11. https://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/server/3.x/admin/Views/views-writing.html couchbase.com Dead — Check Archive
  12. NoSQL Companies CouchOne And Membase Merge To Form Couchbase | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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