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
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Dec. 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the developer
data platform for critical applications in our AI world, today
unveiled Capella AI Services to help enterprises address the
growing data challenges of AI development and deployment and
streamline how they build secure agentic AI applications at scale.
The comprehensive AI Services, including model hosting, automated
vectorization, unstructured data preprocessing and AI agent catalog
services, allow organizations to prototype, build, test and deploy
AI agents while keeping models and data close together. This allows
organizations to avoid the excess latencies and high operational
costs that application developers often experience when introducing
new technology components and workflows. Couchbase empowers teams
to safely bring agent-based applications into production by giving
developers control over data across the development lifecycle and
mitigating security and privacy issues from large language models
(LLMs) running outside the organization.
"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 30% of the Fortune 100, Couchbase enables
organizations to unlock innovation, accelerate AI transformation
and redefine customer experiences wherever they happen. Discover
why Couchbase is the foundation of critical everyday applications
by visiting www.couchbase.com and following us on LinkedIn and
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