Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server
Developer(s) Couchbase, Inc.
Initial release August 2010 (2010-08)
Stable release 4.1 / December 9, 2015 (2015-12-09)
Development status active
Written in C++, Erlang, C,[1] Go
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Multi-Model Database / Distributed Key-Value / Document Oriented Database
License Apache License (Open Source edition), Proprietary (Free Community edition and Paid Enterprise edition)
Website www.couchbase.com

Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is an open-source, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package that is optimized for interactive applications. These applications may serve many concurrent users by creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data. In support of these kinds of application needs, Couchbase Server is designed to provide easy-to-scale key-value or JSON document access with low latency and high sustained throughput. It is designed to be clustered from a single machine to very large-scale deployments spanning many machines.

Couchbase Server provides on-the-wire client protocol compatibility with memcached,[2] but is designed to add disk persistence, data replication, live cluster reconfiguration, rebalancing and multitenancy with data partitioning.

In the parlance of Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem, Couchbase is a CP type system meaning it provides consistency and partition tolerance. However Couchbase Server can be set up as an AP system with multiple clusters using XDCR (Cross Data Center Replication).

Product history

Membase was developed by several leaders of the memcached project, who had founded a company, NorthScale, to develop a key-value store with the simplicity, speed, and scalability of memcached, but also provided the storage, persistence and querying capabilities of a database. The original membase source code was contributed by NorthScale, and project co-sponsors Zynga and NHN to a new project on membase.org in June 2010.

On February 8, 2011, the Membase project founders and Membase, Inc. announced a merger with CouchOne (a company with many of the principal players behind CouchDB) with an associated project merger. The merged company was called Couchbase, Inc. In January 2012, Couchbase released Couchbase Server 1.8. On December 2012, Couchbase Server 2.0 was released, with new features including a new JSON document store, indexing and querying, incremental MapReduce and cross datacenter replication.[3]

High-level architecture

Every Couchbase node is architecturally identical consisting of a Data Service, Index Service, Query Service, and Cluster Manager component. With the introduction of Multi-dimensional Scaling in 4.0, the three Services can be distributed to run on separate nodes of the cluster if needed. This allows for workload isolation and scaling of each Service separately.

Cluster manager

The 'cluster manager' supervises the configuration and behavior of all the servers in a Couchbase cluster. It configures and supervises internode behavior like managing replication streams and rebalancing operations. It also provides metric aggregation and consensus functions for the cluster, and a RESTful cluster management API. The cluster manager is built atop Erlang/OTP, a proven environment for building and operating fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Replication and failover

Data manager

The data manager is responsible for storing and retrieving documents in response to data operations from applications.

Data format

A document is the most basic unit of data manipulation in Couchbase Server. Documents are stored in JSON document format with no predefined schemas.

Object-managed cache

Couchbase Server includes a built-in multithreaded object-managed cache that implements memcached compatible APIs such as get, set, delete, append, prepend etc.

Storage engine design

Couchbase Server has a tail-append storage design that is immune to data corruption, OOM killers or sudden loss of power. ["immune" to sudden loss of power is a claim that would need to be substantiated or documented, since appending to a file could still result in loss of data if power was interrupted in the middle of a disk write operation] Data is written to the data file in an append-only manner, which enables Couchbase to do mostly sequential writes for update, and provide an optimized access patterns for disk I/O.

Performance

Cisco published a benchmark that measures the latency and throughput of Couchbase Server [6] with a mixed workload. Another performance benchmark done by Altoros, compares Couchbase Server with other NoSQL database solutions.[7]

Licensing and support

Couchbase Server is a packaged version of Couchbase's open source technology and is available in two variants: a Community Edition without recent bug fixes as Open Source (Apache 2.0 license[8]) distribution, and an Enterprise Edition for commercial use.[9] It is a good idea to keep up on support policies and software end-of-life.

Couchbase Server builds are available for Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Oracle Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

Couchbase has officially supported SDKs for the following programming languages .Net, PHP, Ruby, Python, C, Node.js, Java, and Go.

N1QL

N1QL (pronounced nickel; Non-first Normal Form Query Language or Couchbase Query Language) is a query language developed by Couchbase for finding data in the document-oriented database, Couchbase Server.

The N1QL data model is non-first normal form (N1NF) with support for nested attributes and domain-oriented normalization. The N1QL data model is also a proper superset and generalization of the relational model.

Production deployments

Large-scale mission critical deployments of Couchbase Server are tracked by Couchbase, Inc. Notable users of Couchbase include:

See also

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C". Damien Katz. 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
  2. ↑ "NewProtocols - memcached - Klingon - Memcached - Google Project Hosting". Code.google.com. 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
  3. ↑ "Couchbase 2.0 released; implements JSON document store". ZDNet. 12 December 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.couchbase.com/wiki/display/couchbase/XDCR+Protocol
  5. ↑ Want to know what your memcached servers are doing? Tap them.
  6. ↑ "Cisco and Solarflare Achieve Dramatic Latency Reduction for Interactive Web Applications with Couchbase, a NoSQL Database" (PDF). Cisco Systems. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
  7. ↑ "Benchmarking Couchbase". Couchbase. 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  8. ↑ "Couchbase Open Source Project".
  9. ↑ "Couchbase Server Editions". Couchbase.

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