Couchbase Essentials is your gateway to mastering Couchbase, a powerful NoSQL database designed for building flexible and scalable applications. Through this book, you will understand Couchbase's key features, explore its indexing and querying capabilities, and learn to design schemas for its schemaless document model. What this Book will help me do Understand how to install and configure a single-node Couchbase environment. Master putting data into and retrieving data from Couchbase using its API. Develop skills in creating secondary and advanced indexes using Couchbase MapReduce views. Learn to design an efficient schema for Couchbase's schemaless document database. Create and query a functional application utilizing Couchbase and its N1QL query language. Author(s) John C Zablocki is an experienced software developer and technology enthusiast with a deep understanding of NoSQL databases like Couchbase. With years of practical experience, John has been instrumental in implementing Couchbase in scalable applications, and he shares actionable insights in this well-rounded book. Who is it for? This book is tailored for application developers aiming to enhance their applications with NoSQL capabilities. It is highly suitable for developers with backgrounds in relational databases, as well as those new to NoSQL systems. If you are interested in building modern, scalable applications, this comprehensive guide to Couchbase is for you.