CHAPTER 4
CRUD and Key-Based Operations
So far in this book, you’ve installed and configured Couchbase, modeled your document database, and used the Client SDKs to perform basic retrieve and create operations. Because Couchbase is both a key-value store and a document database, you can access data in three fundamentally different ways. As a key-value store, which is essentially a large hash table, Couchbase provides very fast inserts and retrievals by key. As a document database, Couchbase lets you index and query data through views and, as of version 4.0, a new SQL-like query language called N1QL, which stands for “Non-1st Normal Form Query ...
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