Couchbase Capella AI Services Empower Fast, Secure, Cost-Effective AI Agents

Couchbase, the developer data platform for critical applications in the AI world, is debuting Capella AI Services, a comprehensive set of services designed to address various bottlenecks associated with AI agent development and deployment at scale. Emphasizing security, reduced latency, and optimized operational costs, Capella AI Services empower a broad stroke of AI innovation by supporting complex workflows and easing data management.

The release of Capella AI Services extends Couchbase’s focus on streamlining the developer experience to AI, bringing a variety of advantages through its fast, in-memory architecture. As a leading high-performance enterprise NoSQL data platform, Couchbase delivers a holistic, secure, and optimized AI journey—from cloud to edge—that empowers developers to adapt and innovate in the constantly shifting world of AI, according to the company.

Capella AI Services is “all about making it simple for developers to build, test, and deploy AI agents without having to use disparate platforms,” said Matt McDonough, SVP of product and partners at Couchbase. It’s about “reducing the latency, proving the performance, and being able to scale and reduce operational costs, all the way through the software development life cycle.”

Capella AI Services offers a broad range of resources—including model hosting, automated vectorization, unstructured data preprocessing, and AI agent catalog services—that enable developers to more easily design, build, test, and deploy AI agents while keeping models and data close in proximity. This is particularly significant as AI adoption radically increases data complexity, where differing data types and integration workflows serve to slow down application response and increase security and accuracy risk.

By centering both application and data management, Couchbase reduces the operational burden of developing and maintaining AI applications and their underlying large language models (LLMs) without sacrificing efficacy or security.

“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 McDonough. “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.”

Capella AI Services includes the following features:

• Model services that deliver managed endpoints for leading LLMs and embedding models, offering valuable capabilities—such as prompt and conversation caching and guardrails and keyword filtering—centered within the organizational boundary to more easily meet privacy and latency requirements without requiring custom solutions or expensive private links
• Unstructured data services, including data extraction, cleansing, chunking, and transformation of unstructured documents into JSON, to make data ready for vectorization and saving developer time
• Vectorization services that automate vectorization and data indexing for data stored in Capella, enabling developers to more rapidly build RAG pipelines when used in conjunction with Capella Model and Unstructured Data Services
• AI agent catalog services that offer a central repository for finding tools, metadata, prompts, and audit information for LLM flow, traceability, and governance, accelerating agentic AI development
• Capella AI functions—such as summarization, classification, sentiment analysis, and data masking—that enhance developer productivity through embedding AI-driven data analysis into application workflows with SQL++ syntax, eliminating the ended for external tooling, custom coding, and model deployment management

“Developer productivity and empowering the development of AI-driven applications anywhere are at the heart of our strategy,” said 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.”

To learn more about Capella AI Services, please visit https://www.couchbase.com/.