Chapter 1. Getting Comfortable with Couchbase
Couchbase Server has quickly emerged as one of the leading NoSQL databases. Known for powering apps and sites such as Viber, PayPal, LinkedIn, and eBay, Couchbase Server easily serves up terabytes to petabytes of data. Whether used as a distributed cache or a document database, Couchbase Server has become a significant contributor to the growth of the Internet as a whole.
Long before the term NoSQL started to grace the pages of blogs, tech journals, and investor balance sheets, a technology called Memcached was providing life support for relational databases. As these systems attempted to reach the scale demanded by modern, Internet-based applications, it was clear that Memcached could help. Still widely ...
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