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Vector Search at the Edge with Couchbase Mobile

Vector Search at the Edge with Couchbase Mobile

We’re pleased to announce the public beta release of Couchbase Lite 3.2 with support for vector search. This launch follows the coattails of vector search support on Capella and Couchbase Server 7.6.  Now, with the beta launch of vector search...

Cloud to Edge AI with a Mobile Database Platform

Cloud to Edge AI with a Mobile Database Platform

Edge computing is a technical architecture that extends data processing from the cloud to the edge, moving it closer to the point of interaction, including onto mobile devices. From the database perspective, a typical architecture includes a database in the cloud,...

Offline-first: a mindset for developing faster, more reliable mobile apps

Offline-first: a mindset for developing faster, more reliable mobile apps

What does offline-first mean? The term “offline-first” describes a mobile app that is built to perform most, or all, of its core functionality without access to the Internet. The concept is simple enough, but all too often this is not...

Don’t REST – Use a Mobile Database for Apps: Couchbase Webcast Recap

Don’t REST – Use a Mobile Database for Apps: Couchbase Webcast Recap

I was recently honored to co-present on a webcast with my colleague and good friend, Aaron LaBeau, Sr. Developer Advocate at Couchbase. Aaron has nearly 30 years of development experience and specializes in building mobile apps, and so seemed the...

Mobile Developers: Is REST Keeping You Up At Night?

Mobile Developers: Is REST Keeping You Up At Night?

REpresentational State Transfer, commonly known as “REST”, describes a standard for programmatic communication with backend data services over the web. A REST API is a programming interface that uses HTTP requests to POST (create), GET (read), PUT (update), and DELETE...

Scopes and Collections Support in Couchbase Mobile for Edge Applications

Scopes and Collections Support in Couchbase Mobile for Edge Applications

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Couchbase Mobile 3.1, which includes Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing solutions. This is a significant release that introduces cloud-to-edge support for scopes and collections in Couchbase Mobile...

Data Sync between Capella App Services and Self Managed Couchbase Mobile Deployments

Data Sync between Capella App Services and Self Managed Couchbase Mobile Deployments

Capella App Services is a fully managed cloud backend for your mobile, desktop and IoT frontend applications. On the other end of the spectrum, the paradigm of “Edge Computing” has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Edge Computing...

What is Native Mobile Development? (Benefits, Tools, Resources)

What is Native Mobile Development? (Benefits, Tools, Resources)

What is native mobile application development? When talking about native mobile app development, it’s good to first understand the landscape. There are approximately 6.5 billion smartphone users worldwide, and that number is growing. As smartphones become more ubiquitous and, at...

Couchbase Mobile and Capella App Services Power Modern Mobile Applications

Couchbase Mobile and Capella App Services Power Modern Mobile Applications

Couchbase Capella App Services and Couchbase Lite put critical data in users’ hands around the globe in modern style. The following examples describe where Couchbase can be found at any time of day, anywhere on the planet. Couchbase Mobile maximizes...

Why You Need a Mobile Database

Why You Need a Mobile Database

Mobile app usage is increasing worldwide, not only in user volume, but in daily time spent on apps. TechCrunch recently reported that mobile users now spend between four and five hours – roughly ⅓ of waking hours – on smartphone...

A Guide to Mobile Cross-Platform Development With Couchbase

A Guide to Mobile Cross-Platform Development With Couchbase

Mobile app usage is increasing to an amazing extent worldwide. In fact, TechCrunch recently reported that users now spend between four and five hours on mobile apps every day – that’s nearly a third of most peoples waking hours. And...

Introducing Capella App Services – Mobile and IoT Sync as a Fully Managed Service

Introducing Capella App Services – Mobile and IoT Sync as a Fully Managed Service

Today we are excited to introduce the Private Preview of Capella App Services, a fully managed and hosted service for synchronizing data between mobile, web and IoT apps and Couchbase Capella, our Database-as-a-Service. App Services effectively brings mobile support to...