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A Comprehensive Guide to Federated Learning
What is federated learning? Federated learning is a machine learning (ML) approach that enables multiple devices or systems to train a shared model collaboratively without exchanging raw data. Instead of sending data to a central server, each participant, such as...
Semantic Similarity with Focused Selectivity
Why does semantic search need selectivity? Up until now, we’ve viewed a vector embedding as a complete, stand-alone entity – focused entirely on the meaning it encodes. While this enables semantic search, often with a high degree of similarity, it...
Aditi Ahuja, Software Engineer May 22, 2025
Migrate from Capella Free Tier to a Paid Account in 4 Steps
What is the Capella free tier? Couchbase Capella offers a free tier product with a perpetual, no-cost environment for users to explore and experience the capabilities of Couchbase’s NoSQL database platform. This free tier is not constrained by time limits,...
Kishor Deshpande - Solutions Engineer May 14, 2025
The Importance of Data Preprocessing in Machine Learning (ML)
Data preprocessing is a vital step in machine learning that transforms raw, messy data into a clean and structured format for model training. It involves cleaning, transforming, encoding, and splitting data to improve model accuracy, prevent data leakage, and ensure...
Tyler Mitchell - Senior Product Marketing Manager May 13, 2025
Introducing Couchbase as a Vector Store in Flowise
We’re excited to announce that Couchbase is now officially supported as a vector store in Flowise, providing users with a powerful, high-performance solution for managing and retrieving vector data. This new integration combines Flowise’s intuitive, no-code AI workflow capabilities with...
Prajwal Pai, Software Engineer May 12, 2025
How to Ensure Data Integrity for NoSQL Systems
What is data integrity? Data integrity refers to the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data throughout its lifecycle. It ensures that data remains correct and unaltered as it’s created, stored, transmitted, and modified. In traditional relational databases, integrity is enforced...
Effortlessly Migrate 300k+ Hugging Face Datasets into Couchbase with the IDE Plugin and CLI
Migrating large, complex datasets from Hugging Face to Couchbase just got easier. Whether you prefer working from the command line or within your favorite IDE, our new Hugging Face to Couchbase migration toolkit—featuring the Couchbase VS Code Extension and the...
Shyam Rajamannar, Senior Software Engineer May 1, 2025
Couchbase Lite for Ionic Capacitor 1.0: Build Powerful Hybrid Offline-First Apps
Hybrid development meets offline-first reliability We’re thrilled to announce the release of Couchbase Lite for Ionic Capacitor 1.0! This marks an exciting step for developers building modern hybrid apps that need to work seamlessly offline and sync smoothly online. This...
Iveta Dulova, Senior Product Manager April 29, 2025
Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Couchbase
The cornerstone of autonomous AI Agentic systems and GenAI applications is an “Augmented LLM”, which is defined as an LLM enhanced with augmentations from various data sources and knowledge bases. Since its introduction, there has been a lot of buzz...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management April 28, 2025
A New Model for Polyglot Distributed Apps with wasmCloud
Distributed application development has evolved rapidly over the last decade. What began as simple service-to-service communication has grown into complex webs of microservices spanning data centers, cloud environments, Kubernetes clusters, and increasingly, edge devices. These systems are often written in...
Ben Greenberg, Senior Developer Evangelist April 25, 2025
Announcing the General Availability of the Couchbase EF Core Provider
The Couchbase EF Core Provider is now generally available. This release brings the power of Entity Framework Core to Couchbase, allowing .NET developers to work with Couchbase using familiar EF Core patterns. What is the Couchbase EF Core provider? Entity...
Matthew Groves April 24, 2025
Replacing MongoDB Realm? Offline-First App Use Cases with Couchbase Mobile
If you’re a mobile developer using MongoDB for offline first mobile apps, you already know they have announced the deprecation of their mobile capabilities, namely, Atlas Edge Server, Atlas Device Sync, and Atlas Device SDKs (formerly known as Realm). These...
Mark Gamble, Director of Product & Solutions Marketing April 21, 2025