Introduction
Ever since we decided to start writing this book, there has been one question which kept popping up whenever someone heard about it: why Couchbase Server? The immediate answer was obvious: because we absolutely love it. But putting aside our natural enthusiasm for every piece of new technology that comes out, Couchbase Server does have a few distinct characteristics that make it stand out from other NoSQL solutions.
The first distinguishing feature of Couchbase Server is that it’s blazingly fast. Couchbase Server keeps coming at the top of every performance benchmark, some of which were commissioned by its competitors. This is mostly due to a solid caching layer it inherited from one of its ancestors: memcached.
Next is the fact ...
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