Category: Full-Text Search
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...
Build Your First Open Source AI Agent with Couchbase
If 2024 was the year of AI chatbots, then 2025 is the year of AI agents. At first glance, they may seem similar, but nothing could be farther from the truth. While you may interact with an AI agent in...
Plataforma única, Couchbase multiuso: Pesquisa vetorial, geoespacial, SQL++ e muito mais
Há casos de uso que são melhor atendidos por vários tipos de acesso a dados, incluindo SQL, pesquisa vetorial, consultas geoespaciais e acesso de valor-chave. Uma abordagem é combinar/encadear vários sistemas de dados para cada método de acesso. No entanto,...
Single Platform, Multi-Purpose Couchbase: Vector Search, Geospatial, SQL++, and More
There are use cases that are best served by multiple types of data access, including SQL, vector search, geospatial queries, and key-value access. One approach is to combine/chain together multiple data systems for each access method. However, the Couchbase approach...
Announcing General Availability of the C++ SDK for Couchbase
We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the C++ SDK for Couchbase! This release adds support for native C++ language to our existing comprehensive set of SDK libraries in 11 programming languages and marks a significant milestone...
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...
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...
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...
Advanced Geospatial Support added to Search Service
The Couchbase Search service is introducing higher dimensional geospatial indexing and querying capabilities with the Couchbase Server release 7.1.2. Until this new feature, the Search service was limited to indexing single dimensional geopoint/location fields. Queries were limited to bounding queries...
Couchbase Lands A Third Database Patent
It seems that with our third database patent, Couchbase is keeping the US Patent & Trademark Office very busy. We are thrilled to announce that Couchbase has been granted its third database patent in the last nine months. The Third...
Couchbase vs. MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 2
Misconceptions about NoSQL have been around as long as NoSQL itself. It’s always good to get different perspectives, and so I’m continuing this blog series about NoSQL misconceptions, specifically when it comes to two of the top document database companies...
Building a Mobile Application with Couchbase – Part 2
This multipart blog will help you build an end-to-end mobile application using the industry-leading features of Couchbase Lite. State of the art end-to-end, scalable and production-grade applications include the following features: An embedded database – storing data locally reduces network...