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Learning Couchbase

By : Henry Potsangbam
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Learning Couchbase

By: Henry Potsangbam

Overview of this book

This book achieves its goal by taking up an end-to-end development structure, right from understanding NOSQL document design to implementing full fledged eCommerce application design using Couchbase as a backend. Starting with the architecture of Couchbase to get you up and running, this book quickly takes you through designing a NoSQL document and implementing highly scalable applications using Java API. You will then be introduced to document design and get to know the various ways to administer Couchbase. Followed by this, learn to store documents using bucket. Moving on, you will then learn to store, retrieve and delete documents using smart client base on Java API. You will then retrieve documents using SQL like syntax call N1QL. Next, you will learn how to write map reduce base views. Finally, you will configure XDCR for disaster recovery and implement an eCommerce application using Couchbase.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Index

Understanding some internals of Couchbase


Let's understand some of the internal concepts of the Couchbase cluster. It will help you to determine the ideal value for various parameters for fine-tuning Couchbase, when we look at tuning in Chapter 10, Administration, Tuning, and Monitoring.

Ejection

Before we conclude the chapter, let's understand some concepts about internal workings of Couchbase. We will discuss how performance is provided in Couchbase, the replication process, protocol usage, and so on.

As discussed earlier, Couchbase ensures that the most frequently accessed data is stored in the RAM, which is an inbuilt caching layer, and boosts performance, but eventually flushes data to disks for persistence. However, if all the data needs to be stored only in the RAM, then the cluster will require a lot of memory. Thus, to hold large amount of data, Couchbase flushes documents out of the memory to accommodate incoming documents. This process flushes the document to the disk before removing...