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Today’s highly interactive websites pose a challenge for traditional SQL databases—the ability to scale rapidly and serve loads of concurrent users. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build web applications on top of Couchbase Server 2.0, a NoSQL database that can handle websites and social media where hundreds of thousands of users read and write large volumes of information.
Using food recipe information as examples, this book demonstrates how to take advantage of Couchbase’s document-oriented database design, and how to store and query data with various CRUD operations. Discover why Couchbase is better than SQL databases with memcached tiers for managing data from the most interactive portions of your application.
Preface;
Introduction;
Where to Get Help on Couchbase Server;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Couchbase Overview;
1.1 Architecture and Structure;
1.2 Buckets and vBuckets;
1.3 Data Storage and Retrieval;
1.4 Views, Indexes, and Querying;
1.5 Comparing Couchbase to SQL Databases;
1.6 Use Cases;
Chapter 2: Getting Started;
2.1 Installing Couchbase Server;
2.2 Couchbase Client Libraries;
2.3 Buckets;
2.4 Connecting to a Cluster;
Chapter 3: Document-based Database Design;
3.1 JSON Overview;
3.2 Modeling Recipe Data;
3.3 Related Data;
Chapter 4: Getting Data In and Out;
4.1 Basic Interface;
4.2 Document Identifiers;
4.3 Time to Live (TTL);
4.4 Storing Data;
4.5 Retrieving Data;
4.6 Updating Data;
4.7 Concurrent Updates;
4.8 Server-side Updates;
4.9 Asynchronous Operations;
4.10 Pessimistic Locking;
4.11 Deleting Data;
Chapter 5: Storing and Updating Recipes;
5.1 Initial Storage;
5.2 Editing;
5.3 Loading Recipe;
5.4 Storing Related Data;
5.5 Loading Related Data;
5.6 Documents Aren’t Everything;
Chapter 6: Views and Queries;
6.1 Creating Views on Your Data;
6.2 Accessing Views from a Client Library;
6.3 Querying and Selection;
6.4 Other Options;
6.5 Dealing with Different Document Formats;
6.6 View Values and Reduction;
6.7 Index Updates;
6.8 Searching and Querying Examples;
6.9 Reductions;
6.10 Document Metadata;
Chapter 7: Next Steps;
7.1 Couchbase Server Resources;
7.2 Couchbase Developer Resources;
Colophon;
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Posted Fri Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013
Quick NoSQL/ Couchbase Server Win
In reviewing Developing with Couchbase Server by MC Brown (O'Reilly Media), I was impressed with how the author was able to turn the complex topic of NoSQL databases into graspable units of learning. The book is relatively short for a technical title (88 pages). However, it is clear that the book strives to get the reader started in the Couchbase technology with references to other online resources that provide much more detail.
Brown provides several easy wins in this title that helped me understand Couchbase in a quick-and-dirty manner that deserve special mention. The “Getting Data In and Out” chapter provides examples on how to use the Couchbase Client Library in a very concise manner. The chapters dealing with modeling were also very well written and provided another set of quick wins for my learning. Finally, the views sections were helpful in understand the aggregation side of the technology.
I would suggest that a reader should look at this book as a “fundamentals and quick-win” work that will get you into the NoSQL paradigm using Couchbase Server. With that in mind, I recommend it as a good read.
Overview
Today’s highly interactive websites pose a challenge for traditional SQL databases—the ability to scale rapidly and serve loads of concurrent users. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build web applications on top of Couchbase Server 2.0, a NoSQL database that can handle websites and social media where hundreds of thousands of users read and write large volumes of information.
Using food recipe information as examples, this book demonstrates how to take advantage of ...