The template can be accessed through the couchbaseTemplate bean out of your context. Once you've got a reference to it, you can run all kinds of operations against it. Other than through a repository, in a template you need to always specifiy the target entity type which you want to get converted.

To mutate documents, you'll find save, insert and update methods exposed. Saving will insert or update the document, insert will fail if it has been created already and update only works against documents that have already been created.

Since Couchbase Server has different levels of persistence (by default you'll get a positive response if it has been acknowledged in the managed cache), you can provide higher durability options through the overloaded PersistTo and/or ReplicateTo options. The behaviour is part of the Couchbase Java SDK, please refer to the official documentation for more details.

Remvoing docouments through the remove methods works exactly the same.

If you want to load documents, you can do that through the findById method, which is the fastest and if possible your tool of choice. The find methods for views are findByView which converts it into the target entity, but also querView which exposes lower level semantics.

If you really need low-level semantics, the couchbaseClient bean is also always in scope.