# Introduction

## Introduction

## Ortus Couchbase Extension

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> Couchbase Server is a distributed NoSQL document database for interactive applications. Its scale-out architecture runs in the cloud or on commodity hardware and provides a flexible data model, consistent high-performance, easy scalability and always-on 24x365 availability. Thanks to a flexible JSON model, Couchbase Server makes it easy to modify your applications without the constraints of a fixed database schema. Submillisecond, high-throughput reads and writes give you consistent high performance. Couchbase Server is easy to scale out, and supports topology changes with no downtime. [Couchbase Inc.](http://www.couchbase.com/).

 

![Couchbase web dashboard](https://2202675960-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FiQp5yVkUO44FBak0dSCI%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-c6a9637fe4685b6a783bac636a0b2e9b4b045a60%2Fmonitor_graph.png?alt=media) Couchbase Web Dashboard showing bucket usage via Lucee Extension

### Requirements

* Lucee 5.1.0 and above
* Couchbase 4.5 and above (Community or Enterprise)

### Features In A Nutshell <a href="#features_in_a_nutshell" id="features_in_a_nutshell"></a>

* Add Couchbase functionality to any Lucee application
* Install at the web context level or the server level (Available to all contexts)
* Create Cache connections in the Lucee web administrator or via `<span class="label label-info">`{=html}Application.cfc`</span>`{=html} to connect to any network-accessable Couchbase cluster
* Set and get objects from Couchbase via standard CFML functions and tags (cachePut(), cacheGet(), \<cfcache action="get|put">)
* Fully supports all built-in Lucee cache functions including wildcard filters
* Seamlessly distribute storage of the following to any bucket in a Couchbase cluster
  * Lucee session storage
  * Lucee client storage
  * Lucee Ram resouce (ram://...)
* Seamlessly cache the following to any timeout-sensitive bucket in a Couchbase cluster
  * Results of database queries
  * Results of deterministic functions
  * Complex or simple objects in your application's code
  * Cached templates (\<cfcache action="content|cache|serverCache">)
* Extremely lightweight and fast

#### Support

The Ortus Couchbase Extension is a commercial product by Ortus Solutions. If you have purchased a license then you are entitled to customer support. You can either visit our support page to contact us or create an issue in our bug tracker.

* Support Page: <https://www.ortussolutions.com/services/support>
* Bug Tracker: <https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/LRE>