A Deep Dive on Database Indexing

Join us for an in-person update on what Couchbase can do to set you up for success in 2023. We will have a few short sessions followed by networking with some drinks and snacks. Couchbase engineers Amit Kulkarni and Akhil Mundroy will be presenting, and other Couchbase staff will be there to talk to you.

Couchbase’s Indexing Service
Couchbase is a modern, distributed, No-SQL, cloud database, which allows users to execute complex SQL++ queries. Indexing service is one of the most important components used by Couchbase’s query execution engine. In this talk, we will dive deeper into the Couchbase’s indexing service to understand the lifecycle of indexes. We will also talk about how Couchbase users can leverage the underlying indexing service to significantly reduce the index management overheads.

Couchbase Secondary Index Storage - Plasma
Plasma is the key-value storage engine powering Couchbase’s indexing service. It is built with lockfree data structures and a multitude of memory management and resource sharing features to allow the indexing service to scale to a large number of indexes. A well-designed application can take advantage of these aspects to scale and perform to the fullest. This session will provide a dive into the key aspects of Plasma and what developers need to know to effectively use the storage subsystem of the indexing service.