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Working with Couchbase
In this hands-on lab, we will install and initialize a Couchbase server on CentOS 7. Once that is complete, we will create a bucket and create some test data.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Install Couchbase
- Get the Couchbase RPM for version 6 and install it:
wget https://packages.couchbase.com/releases/6.0.0/couchbase-server-community-6.0.0-centos7.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install -y couchbase-server-community-6.0.0-centos7.x86_64.rpm
- Set the file limits in the
limits.conf
file:
sudo vim /etc/security/limits.conf
Add these lines:
* soft nofile 75000 * hard nofile 75000
- Start the Couchbase server:
sudo /opt/couchbase/bin/couchbase-server \-- -noinput -detached
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Challenge
Create the Bucket and Test Data
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From the GUI, simply add bucket.
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From the CLI
couchbase-cli bucket-create -c 127.0.0.1:8091 --username Administrator --password Omgpassword! --bucket testdata --bucket-type couchbase --bucket-ramsize 128
- Connect to couchbase using cbq
cbq -e http://127.0.0.1:8091 -u=Administrator
- Locate the data in the
~/data
folder. There is a formatted version and there is an unformatted version. Either way, create a query from this data and run it against the bucket.
INSERT INTO `testdata` (KEY,VALUE) VALUES ("Employee_Duck", {"name":"Donald Duck", "status":"active", "phone":{"primary":"5551212","secondary":"8329050"}}), ("Employee_James", {"name":"Jimmy James", "status":"active", "phone":{"primary":"8001234","secondary":"none"}}), ("Employee_Solo", {"name":"Han Solo", "status":"retired", "phone":{"primary":"none","secondary":"none"}}), ("Employee_Bacca", {"name":"Chew Bacca", "status":"retired", "phone":{"primary":"6123478","secondary":"6461234"}});
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Challenge
Confirm the Data Was Created Correctly
- In the GUI, the bucket will show the documents that were created, however, to make the bucket searchable, you will need to create an index:
CREATE PRIMARY INDEX `td_idx` ON `testdata`;
Then confirm that the data can be queried:
Select * from `testdata`;
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