Check out the blogs that falls under the category Geospatial search, which is a component of Couchbase Full text Search. For finding geographic data relationships in GeoJSON and map-related properties.
Category: Geospatial

SPACE.HACK 2025: Building the Future of Space Apps
On May 17, 2025, engineers, students, and developers landed at Turion Space HQ for SPACE.HACK, a hands-on, fast-paced hackathon co-hosted by Turion Space, Couchbase, and AWS. The goal? Build space-inspired apps using Couchbase Capella that make satellite tracking more accessible...

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...

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...

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...

Creating Python and JavaScript User Defined Functions For Geospatial Queries
SQL++ queries can access data stored in your Couchbase cluster in a variety of ways. There are situations where having the business logic as part of your data queries can also be beneficial. SQL++ supports this with User Defined Functions...

Top Blogs of 2021 – Part 1
What a whirlwind 2021 has been! We’ve had a lot of major events take place this year including debuting on Nasdaq, debuting in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, launching Couchbase Server 7.0, and of course, introducing Couchbase Capella. It’s been a...

Level Up Your Data Visualization with Charts in Couchbase 7.0.2
If a picture is worth a thousand words, data visualization is worth a thousand data points. With the release of Couchbase 7.0.2, the Query Workbench (and the Analytics Workbench) now include a Charts tab that allows you to create charts...

3 Reasons Customers Turn from MongoDB to Couchbase
Let’s face it. MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database upon which to build applications. But just like many “beginner” data analysis projects that start in a spreadsheet, when it’s time to get serious, it’s also time to upgrade. And when...

What Is Spatial Data? Geospatial Basics, Databases & NoSQL Examples
This brief intro to several geospatial data concepts covers spatial databases, spatial indexing, and using GeoJSON data in NoSQL. What is Spatial Data? Spatial data are data types (files, databases, web services) that encode geographic information for use in location-aware...

R Programming With Coucbhase NoSQL Queries & Maps
Many statistical data analysts and data scientists use the R programming language to crunch their numbers outside of a database. Likewise, database analysts try to do everything in the same database whenever possible to maintain a single source. Couchbase provides...