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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

Chapter 4. Designing a Document for Couchbase

The chapter will introduce the concepts of JSON, compare NoSQL with RDBMS, and explain how to manage relationships between various documents. It will also familiarize you with the document editor option so that you can create and edit a document using the web UI. We will try to understand the various ways of designing a document for a Couchbase cluster. Earlier, we specified that the developer doesn't need to worry about the schema. However, while developing any application, we do need some kind of schema modeling to provide a coherent schema and represent domain objects, though nothing as stringent as an RDBMS table structure.