Category: Couchbase Mobile
Edge AI and the Role of the Database
What is Edge AI? Edge AI refers to leveraging artificial intelligence in applications that run at the edge, such as mobile, IoT, and custom embedded applications like interactive kiosks. The concept combines AI processing with edge computing, a technical architecture...
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...
Enhancing GenAI for Privacy and Performance: The Future of Personalized AI with Edge Vector Databases
The evolution of Generative AI (GenAI) is marked by a significant transition from model development to application development. As these AI models mature, the focus shifts to integrating them into real-world applications, bringing about new challenges. Application developers and infrastructure...
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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...