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Couchbase Lite Enterprise vs. Couchbase Lite Community Edition vs. Couchbase Capella™ App Services
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Couchbase Lite
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Sync Gateway
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What customers are saying
“Couchbase offered an end-to-end cloud-ready solution that enabled us to launch quickly and put the service into production by the deadline.”
Matthieu Brun-Bellut, Chief Information Officer, Coyote
5
million users
500
million documents
“Our digital showroom concept completely reimagines the traditional buying approach and establishes a new fashion industry benchmark for sales.”
Daniel Grieder, CEO, Tommy Hilfiger
80%
cut in sample production
25+
digital showroom deployments
“We penetrate more than 95% of households with our products, so we need to have a robust supply chain as well as a good frontline sales application.”
Madhav Mekala, Director of Mobile App Development, PepsiCo
30k
users
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Couchbase Mobile Editions FAQ
Get quick answers to questions about different editions of Couchbase Mobile.
Couchbase Lite Community Edition is a free, open-source embedded NoSQL database for mobile and edge apps. It includes core data access, SQL++ queries, and full-text search.
Enterprise Edition adds database encryption, peer-to-peer sync, vector search, predictive queries, and access to Couchbase enterprise support.
No. Vector search is only available in Couchbase Lite Enterprise Edition. It enables on-device semantic search and RAG features for AI-powered mobile and edge applications.
Capella App Services is the fully managed, cloud-hosted alternative to self-managed Sync Gateway. It provides the same sync capabilities with no infrastructure to deploy or operate.
Community Edition suits development and open-source projects. Enterprise Edition adds encryption, advanced sync, and AI features. Capella App Services removes infrastructure management entirely.