Couchbase Index Best Practices and Query Performance Tuning

Most Couchbase performance tickets I have seen end the same way: someone adds more nodes, the dashboard looks a little better for a week, and the same query shows up in the slow log a month later. The node count was never the problem. The index was. This is a working reference, not an essay. I already wrote the reflective version of what indexing in Couchbase teaches you about systems in general.…