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# Reference Pages

> Essential reference infomation for developing with Couchbase. 

This section contains the following reference docs:

* [API Reference](https://docs.couchbase.com/sdk-api/couchbase-python-client/)
* [Client Settings](client-settings.md)
* [Error Code Reference](error-codes.md)
* [Glossary](glossary.md)
* [Travel Sample Data Model](travel-app-data-model.md)

## [](#a-deeper-dive)A Deeper Dive

The Couchbase SDK docs aim to be practical, and example-led, to get you working with any of our features as quickly as possible. At some point during your journey through these Howto docs, you may feel the need for a deeper dive into certain topics. Concept docs offer discussion-style expansions of key Couchbase features, which go beyond the dry, bare-bones reference of the API docs, and aim to give a clear understanding of the chosen topic.

These are interspersed with the howto guides — but the complete set of discussion docs for the SDK is listed and linked below:

* [Buckets & Clusters](../concept-docs/buckets-and-clusters.md)
* [Collections & Scope](../concept-docs/collections.md)
* [Compression](../concept-docs/compression.md)
* [Data Model](../concept-docs/data-model.md)

  * [Documents](../concept-docs/documents.md)
  * [Non-json Docs](../concept-docs/nonjson.md)
  * [Sub-Documents](../concept-docs/subdocument-operations.md)
  * [XATTR & Virtual XATTR](../concept-docs/xattr.md)
* [Errors and Diagnostics](../concept-docs/best-practices.md)

  * [Health Check](../concept-docs/health-check.md)
  * [Tracing](../concept-docs/response-time-observability.md)
* [Failure Considerations](../concept-docs/durability-replication-failure-considerations.md)
* [Field Level Encryption](../concept-docs/encryption.md)
* [Service Selection / Querying your Data](../concept-docs/querying-your-data.md)

  * [Analytics](../concept-docs/analytics-for-sdk-users.md)
  * [Map Reduce Views](../concept-docs/understanding-views.md)
  * [Query](../concept-docs/n1ql-query.md)
  * [Search](../concept-docs/full-text-search-overview.md)
* [User Management](../concept-docs/sdk-user-management-overview.md)

  * [Cert Auth](../concept-docs/certificate-based-authentication.md)
  * [RBAC](../concept-docs/best-practices.md)

* [Data Modelling, Durability, and Consistency](../concept-docs/data-durability-acid-transactions.md)
* [Querying Your Data](../concept-docs/querying-your-data.md)
* [Failure Considerations](../concept-docs/durability-replication-failure-considerations.md)
* [Best Practices](../concept-docs/best-practices.md)
* [Managing Couchbase](../concept-docs/management-api.md)
* [SDK Deployment](../project-docs/deployment.md)