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Hybrid Search: An Overview
What Is Hybrid Search? Hybrid search typically refers to a search approach that combines multiple search methodologies or technologies to provide more comprehensive and accurate results. In the context of information retrieval, hybrid search often involves blending traditional keyword-based searching...

Building Real-world AI Applications at the Beeloud and Build 2024 AI Hackathon
Couchbase recently sponsored the Beeloud and Build 2024 AI Hackathon. BeeLoud’s (the event’s organizer) goal was to put the Vancouver tech scene on the map and explore the AI world alongside impactful and high-profile builders, mentors, and investor judges. Beeloud...

Twitter Thread tl;dr With AI? Part 2
In part 1 we saw how to scrape Twitter, turn tweets in JSON documents, get an embedding representation of that tweet, store everything in Couchbase and how to run a vector search. These are the first steps of a Retrieval...

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...

Twitter Thread tl;dr With AI? Part 1
Because who has the time ? (also part 1 because it took me further than I expected 😬) Couchbase recently introduced support for Vector Search. And I have been looking for an excuse to play with it. As it turns...

What are Foundation Models? (Plus Types and Use Cases)
What is a Foundation Model? A foundation model is a powerful type of artificial intelligence (AI) trained on massive amounts of general data, allowing it to tackle a broad range of tasks. Foundation models, such as OpenAI’s GPT (Generative Pre-trained...

Chat With Couchbase Technical Documentation
Couchbase community: Meet the Couchbase Docs chatbot, your new Generative AI-powered documentation assistant. Now available on the docs.couchbase.com website, the new chatbot will transform the way you learn about Couchbase products. It’s like having a Couchbase expert that’s always on...

Couchbase Server 7.6 Top New Features For Developers
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Couchbase 7.6, a groundbreaking update poised to redefine the landscape of database technology. This latest release is a testament to our commitment to enhancing database technology, with a significant leap in AI...

What is Vector Similarity Search?
Vector Similarity Search Overview Vector similarity search is a technique that finds similar content or data according to their vector representations. Imagine each piece of data as a collection of numbers arranged in a specific way. By comparing these collections...