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How Couchbase Won YCSB?

[This article is a repost of my article at DZone at:  https://dzone.com/articles/how-couchbase-won-ycsb ] We chose to run YCSB  and do the other performance work in Couchbase 4.5. Not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal served us to organize and measure our effort and features and hold them to a high standard. Like all the  good benchmarks ,  YCSB  is simple to support and run.  Most NoSQL can run YCSB  benchmarks. The difficulty is in getting those numbers high. Just like the TPC wars in 90s, the NoSQL market is going through its YCSB wars to prove the performance and scalability. Cihan Biyikoglu has discussed the  combination of technologies  within Couchbase helping customers scale and perform. In this article, we'll focus on Workload-E in YCSB — How Couchbase is architected and enhanced in  Couchbase 4.5 to win this round of YCSB  against MongoDB. Figure 1 Couchbase Architecture. To put ...