Category: Couchbase Architecture
Building Gen AI Applications with Couchbase Capella
Capella iQ reference architecture In the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the integration of advanced database solutions with generative AI models represents a significant stride forward. This blog presents the architecture of Capella iQ, a Generative AI (Gen...
Your Alternative To MongoDB Atlas Device Sync & Atlas Device SDKs (formerly Realm): Couchbase Mobile
Deciding on your mobile app tech stack shouldn’t be a gamble. Couchbase Mobile delivers a proven, scalable, and mature solution built to last. As a leader in mobile databases, Couchbase ensures you’re ready for the growing demand of offline-first, AI-powered...
Understanding How Transactions Work in Cross Data Center Replications (XDCR)
Couchbase offers an impressive array of powerful tools and features within its platform services. Notably, Cross Data Centre Replication ensures seamless data replication across various geographies, while ACID transactions robustly support transaction workloads, enhancing both reliability and efficiency. Many customers...
Control Plane vs. Data Plane: An Overview of the Differences
What is a Plane (in Networking)? In networking, a “plane” refers to a distinct functional layer within the network architecture responsible for specific tasks related to network operations. Each plane focuses on a particular aspect of network functionality, helping to...
Unlock Hyper-personalization With AI-Driven Adaptive Apps
Since long before the pandemic, “digital-first” has been the direction of travel for ambitious organizations. But closing the gap with big-pocketed U.S. giants like Amazon and Netflix can seem like an impossible task. So how can businesses compete? The answer...
Disaster Recovery with Couchbase Mobile – Sync Gateway and Cross Data Center Replication
Planning for Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) is vital for any modern application, and that applies equally to any application with a mobile or edge computing component. Service outages or downtime can cause serious impacts to a business...
Delivering Customer-Oriented AI Applications
Customer obsession is a powerful concept for any company. Whether your customers are internal or external users of your platform – every experience should be timely and meaningful. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with Customer 360 NoSQL database development is a...
Vector Search Performance: The Rise of Recall
Introducing vector search (KNN), with its distance-based similarity scoring, into the existing Search paradigm necessitated a shift in how we thought about “relevant” results and how to measure them. Text based indexes use tf-idf as their scoring mechanism with the...
Rebalance Reimagined: Faster Scaling of Couchbase’s Index Service With File Transfers
Faster scaling of database resources is essential for maintaining efficient and performant databases, especially with the increased pressure of data ingestion, growing query demands, and the need to handle failovers seamlessly. As application-driven query traffic is primarily handled by index...
Announcing Vector Search and a Whole Lot More!
Couchbase Announces Vector Search Couchbase announces vector search across its entire product line including Capella, Enterprise Server, and Mobile to enable building AI-powered adaptive applications that run anywhere. Happy Leap Day! And congratulations to the entire Couchbase team for delivering...
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part blog. Part 1 discusses the Index service scaling improvements implemented in Couchbase Server 7.2.2. This second part focuses on reducing memory and disk I/O overheads. Reducing Memory Overheads for Indexer Process Couchbase...
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1
Since the start of this year, we (Couchbase Indexing Team) undertook a project to improve indexing service on Capella. This blog discusses the goals we planned to achieve at the start of this project and the list of improvements delivered...