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Columnar Database Use Cases and Examples
What are columnar databases? Columnar databases are a type of database optimized for analytical queries and data warehousing. Unlike traditional row-based databases, which store data row by row, columnar databases store data by columns. This means that all the values...
Matthew Groves March 25, 2025
Chat With Your Git History, Thanks to RAG and Couchbase Shell
Don’t you love reading other people’s commit messages? No? Well, I do and as I was reading a very insightful commit message, I realized all the untapped content living in various Git logs (assuming the dev you follow are writing...
Laurent Doguin, Developer Advocate, Couchbase March 24, 2025
A Guide to LLM Embeddings
LLM embeddings are numerical representations of words, sentences, or other data that capture semantic meaning, enabling efficient text processing, similarity search, and retrieval in AI applications. They are generated through neural network transformations, particularly using self-attention mechanisms in transformer models...
Tyler Mitchell - Senior Product Marketing Manager March 13, 2025
Couchbase Capella Columnar Now Available on Google Cloud
Capella adds Columnar Analytic Services to GCP Couchbase’s Capella Columnar, the analytic services of our developer data platform, is now available in Google Cloud, expanding its support for popular clouds. The Analytic Services include real-time ingestion and conversion of complex...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing March 10, 2025
Data Normalization vs. Denormalization Comparison
What is data normalization? Data normalization is the process of structuring a database to enhance efficiency, maintain consistency, and eliminate redundant data. The idea is simple: break data into smaller, related tables to minimize repetition and simplify updates. By following...
Tim Rottach, Director of Product Line Marketing February 28, 2025
Closing FY25 on a High Note and Celebrating Strong Customer Wins
At Couchbase, we pride ourselves on enabling enterprises to innovate faster, scale effortlessly and optimize costs, all while ensuring high performance from cloud to edge. This week, we announced our fourth quarter and fiscal 2025 results during our Q4 earnings...
Daniela Chesser, Senior Customer Marketing Manager February 28, 2025
Couchbase and NVIDIA Team Up to Help Accelerate Agentic Application Development
Capella AI Services alongside NVIDIA AI Enterprise Couchbase is working with NVIDIA to help enterprises accelerate the development of agentic AI applications by adding support for NVIDIA AI Enterprise including its development tools, Neural Models framework (NeMo) and NVIDIA Inference...
Jeff Morris, VP Product Marketing February 24, 2025
What is Conversational Analytics? Plus Examples and Tools
What is conversational analytics? Conversational analytics refers to the process of analyzing spoken or written interactions between individuals and systems, such as customer service chats, voice assistants, or social media conversations. By leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning,...
Tyler Mitchell - Senior Product Marketing Manager February 21, 2025
AI-Ready Data: Automate Embeddings with Capella’s Vectorization Service
Couchbase Capella has launched a Private Preview for AI services! Check out this blog for an overview of how these services simplify the process of building cloud-native, scalable AI applications and AI agents. In our previous blog, we demonstrated how...
Ayan Sharma - Software Engineer 2 February 19, 2025
DeepSeek Models Now Available in Capella AI Services
Unlock advanced reasoning at a lower TCO for Enterprise AI Today, we’re excited to share that DeepSeek-R1 is now integrated into Capella AI Services, available in preview! This powerful distilled model, based on Llama 8B, enhances your ability to build...
Certifications That Matter: How Couchbase Academy Elevates Your Database Career
What are database certifications? Certifications are opportunities. They give YOU, a knowledgeable, adept, and forward-thinking Database professional, ammunition to kickstart YOUR personal brand. Earning certifications allows you to take what you know and share it with the rest of the...
Michelle Burns - Academy Program Manager February 14, 2025
A Tool to Ease Your Transition From Oracle PL/SQL to Couchbase JavaScript UDF
What is PL/SQL? PL/SQL is a procedural language designed specifically to embrace SQL statements within its syntax. It includes procedural language elements such as conditions and loops, and can handle exceptions (run-time errors). PL/SQL is native to Oracle databases, and...
Gaurav Jayaraj - Software Engineer February 11, 2025