Couchbase Essentials

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Download, install, and configure a singlenode Couchbase Server cluster
• Explore the Couchbase Server key/value APIs used to put data in and get data out of a Couchbase bucket
• Review the basics of MapReduce as a programming model used to transform data structures
• Create simple secondary indexes using Couchbase MapReduce views
• Learn how to create advanced views to aggregate data in a Couchbase bucket
• Understand how to design a schema for documents in a schemaless document database
• Query for data in a Couchbase bucket using the new query language N1QL
• Design and develop an application from scratch using Couchbase

Who this book is for

This book is for those application developers who want to achieve greater flexibility and scalability from their software. Whether you are familiar with other NoSQL databases or have only used relational systems, this book will provide you with enough background to move you along at your own pace. If you are new to NoSQL document databases, the design discussions and introductory material will give you the information you need to get started with Couchbase.