Couchbase AI Data Plane tests whether NoSQL’s cloud-era strengths can carry into agent memory
Oh the halcyon days of the early cloud.
Arguing whether operating at global scale was just an extension of what we already did within the enterprise — private cloud, application servers, relational databases but just a bit… bigger — or something that required fundamentally different practices: public cloud, serverless infrastructure, key-value stores. People fighting it out online and willing to shed intellectual blood to metaphorically die on one hill or the other.
And as usual the disappointingly mundane answer was a bit of both.
But one of the areas that did see a huge blossoming of innovation was data management — because it turned out that the challenge of serving a billion external users wasn’t the same as serving a few thousand internal ones.
Assumptions around co-location, vertical scaling, schema stability, ACID transactions, and response time no longer held. Applications had to be distributed across machines, data centers and regions....
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