Couchbase Introduces Capella AI Services to Streamline Development of Agentic AI Applications
Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE) has unveiled Capella AI Services, a comprehensive suite designed to streamline the development and deployment of secure agentic AI applications. The new offering includes model hosting, automated vectorization, unstructured data preprocessing, and AI agent catalog services. These services aim to help enterprises manage AI development challenges while keeping models and data together to avoid latency issues and high operational costs.
The platform features Model Services, Unstructured Data Services, Vectorization Services, AI Agent Catalog Services, and Capella AI Functions, all integrated to enhance developer productivity and streamline RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines. The services are currently available in private preview.
Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE) ha presentato Capella AI Services, una suite completa progettata per semplificare lo sviluppo e il deployment di applicazioni AI agentiche sicure. La nuova offerta include hosting di modelli, vettorizzazione automatizzata, preprocessing di dati non strutturati e servizi di catalogo per agenti AI. Questi servizi mirano ad aiutare le imprese a gestire le sfide dello sviluppo AI, mantenendo insieme modelli e dati per evitare problemi di latenza e elevati costi operativi.
La piattaforma presenta Servizi di Modello, Servizi di Dati Non Strutturati, Servizi di Vettorizzazione, Servizi di Catalogo per Agenti AI e Funzioni Capella AI, tutti integrati per migliorare la produttività degli sviluppatori e semplificare i pipeline RAG (generazione aumentata da retrieval). I servizi sono attualmente disponibili in anteprima privata.
Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE) ha presentado Capella AI Services, un conjunto integral diseñado para facilitar el desarrollo y la implementación de aplicaciones de IA agentivas seguras. La nueva oferta incluye alojamiento de modelos, vectorización automatizada, preprocesamiento de datos no estructurados y servicios de catálogo de agentes de IA. Estos servicios tienen como objetivo ayudar a las empresas a gestionar los desafíos del desarrollo de IA, manteniendo modelos y datos juntos para evitar problemas de latencia y altos costos operativos.
La plataforma cuenta con Servicios de Modelos, Servicios de Datos No Estructurados, Servicios de Vectorización, Servicios de Catálogo de Agentes de IA y Funciones de Capella AI, todos integrados para mejorar la productividad de los desarrolladores y simplificar los pipelines RAG (generación aumentada por recuperación). Los servicios están actualmente disponibles en vista previa privada.
Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE)는 Capella AI Services를 발표했습니다. 이는 안전한 에이전트형 AI 애플리케이션의 개발 및 배포를 간소화하도록 설계된 포괄적인 제품군입니다. 새로운 제공 사항에는 모델 호스팅, 자동 벡터화, 비정형 데이터 전처리 및 AI 에이전트 카탈로그 서비스가 포함됩니다. 이러한 서비스는 기업이 AI 개발 과제를 관리하는 데 도움을 주고, 지연 문제와 높은 운영 비용을 피하기 위해 모델과 데이터를 함께 유지하는 것을 목표로 합니다.
플랫폼은 모델 서비스, 비정형 데이터 서비스, 벡터화 서비스, AI 에이전트 카탈로그 서비스, Capella AI 기능을 제공하며, 모든 서비스는 개발자의 생산성을 향상시키고 RAG(검색 기반 생성) 파이프라인을 간소화하도록 통합되어 있습니다. 현재 서비스는 비공식 미리보기로 제공됩니다.
Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE) a dévoilé Capella AI Services, une suite complète conçue pour rationaliser le développement et le déploiement d'applications IA agentiques sécurisées. La nouvelle offre comprend l'hébergement de modèles, la vectorisation automatisée, le prétraitement des données non structurées et des services de catalogue d'agents IA. Ces services visent à aider les entreprises à relever les défis du développement de l'IA tout en maintenant les modèles et les données ensemble pour éviter les problèmes de latence et des coûts opérationnels élevés.
La plateforme comprend des Services de Modèles, des Services de Données Non Structurées, des Services de Vectorisation, des Services de Catalogue d'Agents IA et des Fonctions Capella IA, tous intégrés pour améliorer la productivité des développeurs et rationaliser les pipelines RAG (génération augmentée par récupération). Les services sont actuellement disponibles en aperçu privé.
Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE) hat Capella AI Services vorgestellt, eine umfassende Lösung, die entwickelt wurde, um die Entwicklung und Bereitstellung sicherer agentischer AI-Anwendungen zu optimieren. Das neue Angebot umfasst Modell-Hosting, automatisierte Vektorisierung, Vorverarbeitung unstrukturierter Daten und Dienstleistungen für das AI-Agentenkatalog. Diese Services zielen darauf ab, Unternehmen bei der Bewältigung von Herausforderungen bei der AI-Entwicklung zu unterstützen, indem sie Modelle und Daten zusammenhalten, um Latenzprobleme und hohe Betriebskosten zu vermeiden.
Die Plattform bietet Modell-Services, unstrukturierte Daten-Services, Vektorisierungs-Services, AI-Agentenkatalog-Services und Capella AI-Funktionen, die alle integriert sind, um die Produktivität der Entwickler zu steigern und RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) Pipelines zu optimieren. Die Dienste sind derzeit in der privaten Vorschau verfügbar.
- Introduction of comprehensive AI Services suite addressing key market needs
- Integration of models and data within same organizational boundary reducing latency and costs
- Enhanced developer productivity through unified platform and automated workflows
- Services currently only available in private preview, limiting immediate market impact
Insights
The introduction of Capella AI Services represents a strategic move into the enterprise AI infrastructure market. The platform addresses critical pain points in AI development, particularly in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent-based applications. Key differentiators include:
- Integration of model hosting and data management in a unified platform, reducing latency and operational costs
- Built-in security features for LLM interactions within organizational boundaries
- Automated vectorization and preprocessing capabilities that streamline AI development workflows
While innovative, market impact may be initially as the service is only in private preview. The real value proposition lies in Couchbase's ability to leverage its existing enterprise customer base and NoSQL expertise to capture market share in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure space. Competition from established players like MongoDB and Amazon DocumentDB with similar vector capabilities could pressure adoption rates.
New Capella Offerings Empower Developers to Build Agentic Applications With Confidence by Giving Them Control Over Data, Simplified Workflows and AI Models Available in One Unified Platform
"As AI dramatically transforms applications, organizations need secure ways to integrate it and must handle the surge of data across diverse formats to build and deploy agentic applications with confidence," said Matt McDonough, SVP of product and partners at Couchbase. "Couchbase is making this possible by providing a comprehensive AI-powered developer data platform that streamlines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, ensures fast and secure model interactions and enables agent reuse during development and production. We're helping customers through the broad spectrum of AI advances, from simple vector search to RAG chatbots and sophisticated agentic AI apps, and enabling them to deliver more personalized and contextual experiences while reducing development complexity and operational costs."
"The proliferation of AI agents is fundamentally transforming both development and operations, creating new data management challenges for enterprises. Organizations must now preserve and analyze vast amounts of data from agent-LLM interactions, including prompts, responses and validation artifacts – all critical for ensuring ongoing accuracy and reliability. They also face the complexity of maintaining agent guardrails against evolving LLM behaviors," said Carl Olofson, research VP at IDC. "Couchbase Capella and its new AI Services are designed to strategically address these challenges, and provide enterprises the scalable architecture and flexibility needed to handle complex RAG workflows and manage huge volumes of new types of AI data."
Capella AI Services Equip Developers With the Critical Capabilities and Tools Required to Build and Deploy a New Class of Agent-based Applications
Enterprises adopting AI face growing concerns over data security and privacy, performance and latencies, control and costs, and a host of challenges that hinder progress. These include managing different data types and complex data integration workflows, addressing LLM security and accuracy risks, ensuring fast application response times, and adapting to rapidly evolving AI tools and data platforms. Couchbase Capella AI Services address these challenges to help organizations boost developer velocity:
- Model Services: Offers managed endpoints for leading LLMs and embedding models, and provides value-added capabilities, such as prompt and conversation caching, guardrails and keyword filtering to support RAG and agentic workflows. With data and AI models within the same organizational boundary, enterprises can more easily meet privacy and latency requirements for enterprise-grade RAG applications, eliminating the need for costly private links or custom solutions.
- Unstructured Data Services: Extracts, cleans, chunks and transforms unstructured documents into JSON, preparing them for vectorization. It also extracts structured information from complex documents and makes them queryable in Capella. This saves developers time associated with building DIY preprocessing pipelines.
- Vectorization Services: Automates vectorization and indexing of data stored in Capella. Along with Capella Model and Unstructured Data Services, this helps developers quickly build a RAG pipeline with fewer tools.
- AI Agent Catalog Services: Accelerates agentic application development by offering a centralized repository for tools, metadata, prompts and audit information for LLM flow, traceability and governance. It also automates discovery of relevant agent tools to answer user questions, and manages guardrails to ensure that agent exchanges are consistent over time.
- Capella AI Functions: Enhances developer productivity by enabling AI-driven data analysis directly into application workflows using familiar SQL++ syntax. This accelerates developer productivity by eliminating the need for external tooling, custom coding and managing model deployments. Capella AI Functions include summarization, classification, sentiment analysis and data masking.
Developers require a unified platform to build and manage the emerging class of agent-based applications and need specialized data management tools to handle complex AI workflows and language model interactions effectively and securely. With Capella AI Services now part of Couchbase's robust developer data platform, customers can streamline RAG pipelines, collect, evaluate and validate agent exchanges, and accelerate time to market for RAG and agentic AI applications.
Couchbase Capella Makes It Simple for Developers to Build
As a leading high-performance enterprise NoSQL data platform for over a decade, Couchbase is empowering developers to build trustworthy, intelligent, mission-critical agentic applications that scale across cloud and edge environments. Couchbase Capella enables developers to accelerate the creation of agent-based AI applications using their existing experience, skills and preferred tools, including SQL++ query language and over a dozen programming languages. Capella streamlines complex AI workflows – from data vectorization and storage to model interactions, validation and analytics. Developers can leverage automated processing, seamlessly integrate with popular AI models and frameworks, and deploy across multiple clouds, all while maintaining complete control over their data security, LLM interactions, agent exchanges, application performance and the user experiences they create. This flexible approach allows teams to build sophisticated AI applications without generating excessive expenses, compromising on their specific requirements or having to learn entirely new tool sets.
"Developer productivity and empowering the development of AI-driven applications anywhere are at the heart of our strategy," continued McDonough. "By providing a unified platform that supports development from prototype to production, we're enabling organizations to build and deploy AI applications from cloud to edge that are sophisticated, trustworthy and cost-effective."
Capella AI Services are available in private preview.
Additional Resources
- Read more about Capella AI Services on the blog.
- Learn about Capella AI Services and sign up for the private preview here.
- Register for our webcast examining the opportunities and challenges of building AI-powered applications and agents here.
About Couchbase
As industries race to embrace AI, traditional database solutions fall short of rising demands for versatility, performance and affordability. Couchbase is seizing the opportunity to lead with Capella, the developer data platform architected for critical applications in our AI world. By uniting transactional, analytical, mobile and AI workloads into a seamless, fully managed solution, Couchbase empowers developers and enterprises to build and scale applications with complete flexibility – delivering exceptional performance, scalability and cost-efficiency from cloud to edge and everything in between. Trusted by over
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