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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 the XDCR architecture


XDCR provides an efficient way to replicate data across different clusters in the Couchbase system. It can be used to replicate within a Couchbase cluster system or between Couchbase and third-party systems, such as ElasticSearch, which we saw in the previous chapter. It can be used to replicate data from one cluster to another cluster. They can be in different data centers, which are geographically widespread across continents, for example, replication from one data center in Mumbai and another in London for disaster recovery or for data locality. Data locality is a feature in which an application request from a user will be redirected to the nearest Couchbase cluster, which is physically near to the user, to provide better performances.

XDCR replicates data across clusters. Clusters can be located across different data centers, which can be geographically far away from each other, for recovery in the event of a natural disaster. In one cluster, there...