Capella Columnar, Now Generally Available,
Streamlines Development by Enabling JSON Operational and Analytics
Processing on One Database Platform
Available Today, Couchbase Mobile With Vector
Search Lets Organizations Run AI-Powered Applications From Cloud to
Edge
Couchbase Empowers Developers With Free Tier
on Capella, Supporting Continuous Innovation Without Time
Limits
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Sept. 3,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ:
BASE), the cloud database platform company, today officially
launched Capella™ Columnar on AWS, which helps organizations
streamline the development of adaptive applications by enabling
real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads within a
single database platform. Also generally available today is
Couchbase Mobile with vector search, which makes it possible for
customers to offer similarity and hybrid search in their
applications on mobile and at the edge. With Capella Columnar and
vector search capabilities in one cloud database platform,
Couchbase helps customers reduce cost and simplify operations,
while enabling developers to create trustworthy adaptive
applications that run from cloud to edge.
Couchbase also announced today Capella Free Tier, a free
developer environment designed to empower developers to evaluate
and explore products and test new features without time
constraints. Couchbase simplifies learning, developing and
deploying applications on Capella into production, and provides
developers with the access and convenience they need to build upon
applications without worrying about an end date.
"We're committed to empowering organizations to build truly
adaptive applications that can respond to real-world scenarios in
real time," said Matt McDonough, SVP
of Product and Partners at Couchbase. "With the launch of Capella
Columnar, we're solving long-standing challenges in JSON data
analytics, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate insights
into their operational applications. Our vector search capabilities
in Couchbase Mobile extend this adaptivity to edge and IoT devices,
opening up new possibilities for hyper-personalized and
context-aware applications."
Capella Columnar Converges Operational and Real-Time
Analytics to Accelerate Real-Time Adaptive Applications
Many
organizations, including Couchbase customers, have embraced the
flexibility of JSON when building business-critical applications.
However, while JSON is often the programmer's preferred data
format, it can be difficult to use for traditional analytic systems
that expect data to conform to more rigid structures. Without
formal structures, business intelligence teams spend too much time
on data hygiene, and less on including operational JSON data in
their analysis. This is why so much semi-structured JSON data
remains dormant. Couchbase offers key-value and columnar storage
options for operational and analytic workloads on a single
platform, providing customers the power and flexibility to make
JSON data useful in analytics.
Capella Columnar addresses the challenge of parsing,
transforming and persisting JSON data into an analysis-ready
columnar format. It supports real-time, multisource ingestion of
data not only from Couchbase, but also using common systems like
Confluent Cloud — built by the original creators of Apache
Kafka® — to draw data from other third-party JSON or SQL
systems. Capella Columnar makes analysis easy by using Capella iQ,
the AI-powered coding assistant that writes SQL++ for the
developer, who no longer needs to wait for the BI team to run
analytics for them. Once an important metric is calculated, it can
immediately be written back to the operational side of Capella,
which can use the metric within the application.
"This write-back problem has remained unaddressed by analytic
systems for decades because it was too difficult to anticipate what
a developer would do with it," added McDonough. "Capella Columnar
implements the solution, and the needs of AI-powered applications
provide the motive."
Capella Columnar reduces latency, complexity and cost to empower
organizations to build real-time adaptive applications. For
example, it can enable more personalized experiences in an
e-commerce application so retailers can provide custom offers that
enhance revenue, or build in customer-facing metrics in a gaming
application to accelerate engagement. As AI enhances these
applications, Capella Columnar positions Couchbase to meet the
growing demand for high-performing, personalized and intelligent
adaptive solutions.
"Couchbase already provides a highly flexible data management
capability by blending its base JSON document model with the
ability to manage the data in a networked way," said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President at IDC.
"Now they have added blended analytic-transaction processing
support that leverages the performance advantage of columnar data
management together with vector search in support of applications
demanding intelligent data access at the speed of business. These
are capabilities that the market has been looking for but are hard
to find contained in a single product."
Couchbase Mobile With Vector Search Enables Cloud-to-Edge
AI
Couchbase offers vector search support from cloud to
edge, and remains a leader in enabling offline-first edge AI
applications for customers. Using vector search on-device with
Couchbase Lite, the embedded database for mobile and IoT
applications, mobile developers can now leverage vector search at
the edge for building fast, secure and reliable semantic search and
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications that work even
without an internet connection.
"By enabling on-device vector search, we're not just speeding up
applications and eliminating downtime due to internet outages;
we're opening up new possibilities for secure AI development,"
continued McDonough. "Our solution combines the cloud's scalability
to handle massive AI datasets with edge capabilities for immediate,
on-device processing. This unique combination, along with our
support for multiple search techniques accessible through a single
SQL++ query, empowers developers to create sophisticated GenAI
applications that can run entirely on-device. This means
organizations can now harness the power of AI without compromising
on latency, data privacy or performance, bringing adaptive
intelligence to the edge."
Developers Can Build Applications With Free Access to
Capella
With the introduction of Capella Free Tier,
Couchbase is removing friction points for developers by allowing
them to learn Capella at their own pace, retain work and
continually evaluate and expand to new applications. With Capella
iQ, developers leverage AI-powered code generation built into the
Capella Workbench and popular IDEs like Visual Studio Code to
accelerate application development. Developers also have access to
numerous community-supported extensions such as cbshell 1.0, which
supports vector search, a new object-relational mapping library for
Ruby and plugins such as Ionic Capacitor for Couchbase Lite, which
simplifies cross-platform mobile development. By unlocking free
access for developers to Capella and embracing these
community-based extensions, Couchbase helps accelerate both
personal and professional projects.
"Developers want to kick the tires on any software they plan to
use before committing, particularly when it comes to database
solutions," said Kate Holterhoff,
Senior Analyst at RedMonk. "By offering a free tier to Capella,
Couchbase acknowledges the tinkering spirit that motivates these
important builders and creators."
Capella Free Tier will be available in September.
Supporting Quotes
Confluent
"Real-time operations and analytics require
easy access to data from diverse sources across an entire
business," said Paul Mac Farland,
SVP of Partner and Innovation Ecosystem, Confluent. "Confluent's
complete data streaming platform for Apache Kafka® and
Apache Flink® captures events from any system and feeds
them into Couchbase Capella for real-time insights at scale.
Together with Couchbase, we empower businesses with the secure,
governed, high quality data and analytics needed to fuel the next
generation of real-time customer experiences and operational
workloads."
Couchbase Ambassador
"Pretty exciting what even a solo
mobile app developer can build with vector search on Couchbase
Lite: lots of neat AI capabilities, actually running locally and
instantly on-device (because, believe it or not, some people care
about both privacy and user experience)," said Paul Capestany, Couchbase ambassador.
Mentorius
"By enabling OLTP and OLAP workloads from
one unified control plane, Couchbase Capella Columnar eliminates
the need for multiple specialized databases and ETL processes,
lowering complexity and decreasing time to market," said
Jeff Lockhart, co-founder of
Mentorious. "This unified approach makes it easier for our
development team to use real-time insights to iterate on features,
faster, so we can provide more personalized experiences for our
users."
Additional Resources
- To learn more, read our market momentum blog here
- Join the webcast here
- Watch the video on Couchbase Mobile with vector search and
learn more here
About Couchbase
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flexible database platform that can power applications spanning
from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase's mission
is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and
run modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the
database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database
platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build
applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers –
all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the
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