Introduction to Couchbase: A database for mission critical applications
Today's mission-critical applications demand support for millions of interactions with end-users. Traditional databases were built for thousands.
Couchbase Server is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL document-oriented database. It exposes a fast key-value store with managed cache for sub-millisecond data operations, purpose-built indexers for fast queries, and a powerful query engine for executing SQL-like queries.
In this talk, we will review the basic concepts of distributed databases and deep dive into Couchbase’s architecture to understand why it can scale to dozens of nodes while still maintaining strong consistency and explain how we implemented distributed acid transaction support with no central coordinator and no single point of failure.
