CHAPTER 3

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The Couchbase Client Libraries

Chapter 2 showed how to use the administration console to create and retrieve data from our Couchbase Server cluster; however, like any other database, Couchbase is intended to serve as a data store for applications. Unlike many traditional databases, Couchbase Server is designed to distribute data across multiple nodes, which adds complexity to storage and retrieval. To allow applications to save and retrieve data, Couchbase provides a set of language-specific client libraries, also called Couchbase Client Software Development Kits (SDKs). In this chapter, you’ll learn the basics of accessing data programmatically, ...

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