We are excited to announce that Couchbase Enterprise Analytics is now available for self-managed deployments on Microsoft Azure. This brings our powerful, real-time analytics capabilities to Azure customers, enabling them to derive immediate insights from their operational data without impacting application performance. Enterprise Analytics allows you to run complex real-time analytical queries directly on your JSON data, eliminating the time delay between operations and analytics and empowering faster, more informed decision-making and real-time actions.
“Bringing Enterprise Analytics to Microsoft Azure is a significant milestone for our customers,” said Amit Saha, Product Management Director at Couchbase. “Organizations can now leverage the power of Azure’s scalable infrastructure to run real-time analytics on their Couchbase data combined with other critical data. This eliminates the need for complex and costly ETL processes, allowing businesses to analyze, decide, and act on their data in the moment, directly within a single, unified platform.”
Key Capabilities of Couchbase Analytics
Couchbase Analytics is engineered to handle the demands of modern data, offering a suite of features that simplify and accelerate your ability to deliver metrics to operational applications.
Zero ETL for JSON and semi-structured data: Say goodbye to rigid schema and complex data pipelines. Couchbase Analytics has a Zero-ETL architecture that allows real-time ingestion and analysis of JSON and other semi-structured data as it is created or modified. This accelerates your time to insight by removing the delays associated with traditional data transformation processes.
Multi-source ingestion: Enterprise data rarely lives in one place. Our platform supports ingestion from multiple sources, including Couchbase and non-Couchbase databases like CosmosDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Furthermore, Enterprise Analytics enables direct querying of external object storage (like Azure Blog Storage), supporting formats including JSON, Parquet, Avro, CSV, TSV, and Delta tables, to provide a truly unified view and analysis.
Real-time operational write-back: The ability to act on insights is just as critical as generating them. Couchbase enables you to write the results of your analytical queries back into your operational database in milliseconds. This creates a closed-loop system where analytics directly influence and enhance your core business applications in real time.
A powerful, economical unified platform: By combining operational and analytical workloads in a single database platform, Couchbase eliminates data duplication and reduces architectural complexity. For analytic workloads, the massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture with separation of compute and storage provides unparalleled performance and scalability while optimizing infrastructure costs.
Benefits of Enterprise Analytics on Azure
Deploying Couchbase Enterprise Analytics on Microsoft Azure provides unique advantages that leverage the power and scale of the Azure ecosystem.
Support of Azure Blob Storage: You can now deploy Enterprise Analytics on Azure Blob VMs. Enterprise Analytics stores its data in Azure Blob Storage. This allows you to take advantage of Azure’s cost-effective, durable, and highly scalable cloud storage for your analytical data, separating storage from compute for greater flexibility and efficiency.
External Collections for Azure Blob Storage: Gain powerful query access to data already stored in ABS. Using the External Collections feature, you can run SQL++ queries on your data lakes in Azure Blob Storage without moving or replicating the data into Couchbase, integrating your existing data assets seamlessly into your analytics workflow.
Operational write-back to Azure Blob Storage: Extend our real-time write-back capabilities to the Azure environment. With the COPY TO statement, you can easily write the results of your analytical queries from Couchbase directly back into Azure Blob Storage. This facilitates data sharing and integration with other Azure services and downstream processes.
The Flexible Database Platform for Critical Applications
Couchbase is designed to be the data platform for your most critical applications, offering unmatched versatility and deployment freedom.
Our architecture is built to support multiple workloads – transactional, analytical, search, and mobile – within a single platform. This flexibility means you can build and run sophisticated applications that require real-time responsiveness and deep analytical insight without stitching together multiple disparate technologies.
Furthermore, Couchbase provides broad deployment choices. Whether you prefer to run on premises, in the cloud with Azure, or in a hybrid environment, our platform delivers a consistent and interoperable experience. This freedom allows you to align your data strategy with your business requirements, not the other way around.
Summary and Next Steps
The availability of Couchbase Enterprise Analytics for deployments on Microsoft Azure marks a new chapter in real-time data analytics. You can now harness the combined power of Couchbase’s JSON-native analytics and Azure’s robust cloud infrastructure to unlock immediate value from your data. Eliminate ETL latency, reduce costs, and empower your applications with real-time insights, all on a single, flexible platform.
Explore how Couchbase Enterprise Analytics on Azure can transform your data-driven operations. Visit our product page to learn more and get started.
Jeff Morris is VP of Product and Solutions Marketing at Couchbase. He's spent over three decades marketing software development tools, databases, analytic tools, cloud services, and other open source products. He'd be the first to tell you that anyone looking for a fast, flexible, familiar, and affordable cloud-to-edge database-as-a-service can stop looking after they check out Couchbase.
