Category: Sync Gateway

How to Migrate MongoDB Device Sync (Realm) Apps to Couchbase Capella App Services

How to Migrate MongoDB Device Sync (Realm) Apps to Couchbase Capella App Services

The developer community has expressed significant concern following MongoDB Atlas’s deprecation announcement of their edge and mobile capabilities. In an earlier post, we explored why Couchbase Mobile is a strong alternative for supporting your offline-first data sync requirements. In this...

Uma Alternativa Melhor ao MongoDB Atlas Device Sync/Atlas Device SDKs (antigo Realm): Couchbase Mobile

Uma Alternativa Melhor ao MongoDB Atlas Device Sync/Atlas Device SDKs (antigo Realm): Couchbase Mobile

Decidir sobre o stack tecnológico do seu aplicativo móvel não deve ser uma aposta. Couchbase Mobile oferece uma solução comprovada, escalável e madura, feita para durar. Como líder em bancos de dados móveis, Couchbase garante que você esteja preparado para...

Your Alternative To MongoDB Atlas Device Sync & Atlas Device SDKs (formerly Realm): Couchbase Mobile

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...

Vector Search at the Edge with Couchbase Mobile

Vector Search at the Edge with Couchbase Mobile

We’re pleased to announce the 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 vector search support in Couchbase Lite, we enable...

Disaster Recovery with Couchbase Mobile – Sync Gateway and Cross Data Center Replication

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...

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...

Data Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages

Data Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages

Data replication (storing redundant copies of data in multiple locations) is crucial when it comes to maintaining high availability, improving the performance of your systems, and ensuring business operations run smoothly in the event of disaster. However, it does come...

What is a Distributed Application? Definition and Examples

What is a Distributed Application? Definition and Examples

A distributed application is a program that runs on one or more computers simultaneously and communicates through a network. In this blog post, we’ll dive into how distributed applications work, how they differ from standalone or traditional applications, how you...

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...