What is Data Mining? Data mining is a type of data analysis that involves searching through large amounts of information to find patterns and insights. Imagine having a giant library with thousands of books, but you just need to find specific facts or trends about one topic. Instead of reading every book, you can use special tools and techniques to quickly find the information you seek, i.e., data mining. By identifying these patterns and insights, data mining helps businesses and organizations make better decisions, predict future trends, understand complex situations, and discover new data a ..read more

Cloud databases, like most business-to-business technology, act as the behind-the-scenes mechanics of a stage production, seamlessly orchestrating the flow of application data for organizations and consumers who are unaware of their impact on daily digital experiences. Online and in-person shopping, gaming, video streaming, restaurant reservations and travel – the list goes on – cloud databases power mission-critical applications that we all rely on. That’s why we celebrate National Cloud Database Day annually on June 1. This official day was created to raise awareness of the value of cloud da ..read more

Couchbase 7.6 introduces Vector Search into the Couchbase architecture, expanding its search capabilities by leaps and bounds. This article showcases how this affects search queries, how we have to adapt in certain situations and how to efficiently use this latest feature. To make sure your vector searches are the best they can be, you need to be aware of problems like slow queries caused by inefficient indexes, inefficient queries or frequently changing data as well as other failure cases like timeouts, consistency errors, app herder, etc. Introducing Vector Queries Search queries had to be a ..read more

Customer obsession is a powerful concept for any company. Whether your customers are internal or external users of your platform – every experience should be timely and meaningful. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with Customer 360 NoSQL database development is a powerful approach to delivering these experiences. Today’s technology, especially AI, can significantly enhance  customer interaction needs. In this post, we review some of the barriers and show how Couchbase, integrated with AI, solves them. Take these lessons to help support the next generation of your technical infrast ..read more

In part 1 we saw how to scrape Twitter, turn tweets in JSON documents, get an embedding representation of that tweet, store everything in Couchbase and how to run a vector search. These are the first steps of a Retrieval Augmented Generation architecture that could summarize a twitter thread. The next step is to use a Large Language Model. We can prompt it to summarize the thread, and we can enrich the context of the prompt thanks to Vector Search. LangChain and Streamlit So how do we make this all work together with an LLM? That’s where the LangChain project can help. Its goal is to enable de ..read more

Introducing vector search (KNN), with its distance-based similarity scoring, into the existing Search paradigm necessitated a shift in how we thought about “relevant” results and how to measure them.  Text based indexes use tf-idf as their scoring mechanism with the results remaining the same across searches, given a fixed corpus of words (here, the documents in a partition). In contrast, a KNN search does not guarantee the same level of idempotency. The results are approximate, often differing between queries. This article is about the Search team pivoting from exact to approximate. Alon ..read more

In the last decade, microservices have changed how developers and organizations build and ship applications. According to Stack Overflow’s 2023 Developer Survey, nearly 49% of software professionals use microservices daily. To further understand how microservices have risen in popularity, we’ll look at the Java landscape and explore how and when you should build and ship microservices using Java. What are Microservices in Java? Microservices are a system architectural pattern that allows developers to build and deploy applications modularly. A modular architecture means one service can be chan ..read more

Recursive Common Table Expressions (CTEs) and Oracle’s CONNECT BY are well-known SQL constructs among RDBMS users, facilitating the delegation of complex, interdependent data structure exploration to the database layer for enhanced processing efficiency. These constructs are crucial for querying interdependent data structures, a common requirement across various industries, including finance, supply chain management, customer relationship management (CRM), travel booking, and more recently, social networks. Recognizing their importance, all major relational database management systems (RDBMS ..read more

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 out there was recently a great Twitter thread about Developer Marketing. I can relate to most of what’s in there. It’s a fantastic thread. I could summarize it to make sure my teammates can get the best out of it in a short time. Like, I could write that summary manually. Or that could be the excuse I was looking for. Let’s ask an LLM, Large Language Model, to summarize this brilliant th ..read more

The rise of generative AI (GenAI) is proving transformative for organizations. But organizations must be ready to seize the AI opportunity. Couchbase’s seventh annual survey of 500 IT decision makers explores how enterprises are reacting to the rapid growth of AI and assesses the preparedness of their data strategies. Digitization pulse check The view from IT departments is clear: digital modernization across organizations is still a key priority and is increasingly fueled by AI. A 27% rise is predicted in investment across digital modernization, reaching $35.5 million per enterprise by the en ..read more