Category: Couchbase Mobile

Announcing Vector Search and a Whole Lot More!

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...

Consolidate Your Databases to Eliminate Data Sprawl, Reduce Complexity and Lower Costs

Consolidate Your Databases to Eliminate Data Sprawl, Reduce Complexity and Lower Costs

The concept of consolidation is simple, and applying its principles can bring immense benefit to any organization. But what does consolidation mean in the context of database technology?  Google defines consolidation as “the action or process of combining a number of...

Vector search is coming to Couchbase Lite, sign up for beta!

Vector search is coming to Couchbase Lite, sign up for beta!

Mobile app developers know that a key to adoption is engaging users with an experience that is unique and tailored just for them. This means the app must display items and data in context with the user’s tastes, history, location,...

Top Ten Reasons to Love Couchbase Capella

Top Ten Reasons to Love Couchbase Capella

If you are new to Capella, it is our cloud database platform that serves the needs of modern applications. How does it do this? At its core is a multimodel and distributed document database that is designed for high-speed performance...

Couchbase 2024 Predictions: Driving Successful AI Adoption with Edge Computing, Lightweight Models and Developer Empowerment

Couchbase 2024 Predictions: Driving Successful AI Adoption with Edge Computing, Lightweight Models and Developer Empowerment

Generative AI and Edge Computing can work synergistically to deliver personalized, intelligent insights at scale. Processing massive volumes of data at the edge, closer to the point of generation or consumption, saves bandwidth costs by avoiding the need for data...

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...

So, you want to build a data sync solution….

So, you want to build a data sync solution….

Mobile apps depend on data to operate, and as a developer, how you decide to handle that data can have huge implications on app performance. To provide the best possible experience, you must ensure fast and ready access to data...

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 Replication and Synchronization in Couchbase

Data Replication and Synchronization in Couchbase

Data replication and synchronization may seem redundant at first glance. They both refer to copying data from one persistent repository to another for consistency in a distributed architecture. But for Couchbase, each term has a different meaning and each is...