We're collaborating with the open source guys over at Microsoft on some content and events. One of the questions that came up was: what's the easiest way to set up Couchbase on Azure? Now, that sounds rather trivial - just look at the Couchbase docs and follow the instructions. But…
TL;DR: Get the preview release of the plugin for ES 5.0-alpha2 here. While I was working on updating the Couchbase transport plugin for Elasticsearch 2.x, Elastic went and released an alpha version of 5.0. There are a lot of changes in various APIs, breaks from backwards…
TL;DR: Get it here: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/elasticsearch-transport-couchbase/releases While the folks at Elasticsearch are busy working on version 5.0, I've now released updated versions of the Couchbase transport plugin for versions 2.x. Elasticsearch 2.0 brought a lot of changes to the security model, then…
TL;DR: SELECT myBucket.* FROM myBucket A change in the way N1QL returns results for star queries in Couchbase Server 4.1 seems to have broken how the .NET SDK deserializes the returned results. It causes the Query<> method to return the correct number of results, but with…
TL;DR: Expose the Couchbase .NET SDK through COM interop by wrapping it in a simple facade class. I got an unusual request today: a prospective Couchbase customer wants to use the database from a Delphi application. Turns out Delphi is still a thing! Who knew? As it happens, it's…
TL;DR: Join the bucket to itself with an outer left join on the foreign (reference) ID, where the right side of the join is missing. Most NoSQL databases do not have built-in support for referential integrity and Couchbase Server is no exception. The best you can do is check…