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Henry Potsangbam
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Henry Potsangbam

Henry Potsangbam is an experienced software developer, administrator, and architect with more than 14 years of experience in enterprise application architecture, design, and development. He's worked in various domains, such as e-commerce, retail, and energy sectors. He is an IBM certified application and solution developer, SAP Certified Netweaver EP Consultant and CIPM (project management). Always fascinated by and interested in exploring emerging technologies to solve business scenarios, Henry has been following NoSQL and Couchbase since its initial release around 2011. In his spare time, he explores, and educates professionals in big data technologies such as Hadoop (Mapr, Hortonworks, and Cloudera), enterprise integration (camel, fuse esb, and Mule), analytics with R, messaging with kafka, rabbitMQ, the OSGI framework, NoSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra, and Mongodb), enterprise architecture, and so on. During his career, he architect private cloud implementation using virtualization for one of the fortune 500 company. He also played active role in provisioning infrastructure for one of the largest cash transfer programme in the world.
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Understanding Java SDK


We discussed the various APIs provided by the Couchbase SDK for connecting to the Couchbase server and performing operations on it. Let's now try to focus on the APIs specific to Java. We are going to explain Java SDK 2.1.3. If you are a seasoned software developer, you might have some ideas about what are required to perform operations on the database system. We need to know the hostname or the IP address of the servers that run the Couchbase database. Of course, you need the database name, which is the bucket in the Couchbase system, to connect to it before performing any operations:

Cluster cluster = CouchbaseCluster.create();
Bucket defaultBucket = cluster.openBucket();

The preceding statements create a Cluster object using a CouchbaseCluster factory class, which will be used to connect to the bucket. If you didn't specify any parameters to the create() method, then it will connect to the localhost; that is, Couchbase should be running on the server in which the...

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Henry Potsangbam

Henry Potsangbam is an experienced software developer, administrator, and architect with more than 14 years of experience in enterprise application architecture, design, and development. He's worked in various domains, such as e-commerce, retail, and energy sectors. He is an IBM certified application and solution developer, SAP Certified Netweaver EP Consultant and CIPM (project management). Always fascinated by and interested in exploring emerging technologies to solve business scenarios, Henry has been following NoSQL and Couchbase since its initial release around 2011. In his spare time, he explores, and educates professionals in big data technologies such as Hadoop (Mapr, Hortonworks, and Cloudera), enterprise integration (camel, fuse esb, and Mule), analytics with R, messaging with kafka, rabbitMQ, the OSGI framework, NoSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra, and Mongodb), enterprise architecture, and so on. During his career, he architect private cloud implementation using virtualization for one of the fortune 500 company. He also played active role in provisioning infrastructure for one of the largest cash transfer programme in the world.
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