How Couchbase Helps Customers Dramatically Reduce TCO

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are constantly striving to modernize their applications. Their goals often include improving customer satisfaction, staying ahead of the competition, and lowering overall costs. A significant part of this modernization involves the database and its related infrastructure. Enter Couchbase Capella™, a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution that’s instrumental in helping businesses cut costs.

What is Couchbase Capella?

Capella is a modern, fully managed NoSQL DBaaS that offers flexibility, speedy in-memory performance, enterprise-level features, and proven offline mobile & IoT enablement, all with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). It offers:

• • Flexibility and performance: At its heart, Capella is a modern NoSQL DBaaS with a flexible JSON data model. It delivers caching with millisecond performance, scalability, and advanced security, all while ensuring a low TCO.
  • Fully managed service: Capella takes the hassle out of setup, configuration, and maintenance, allowing teams to concentrate on development and speeding up time to market.
  • Enterprise robustness: With built-in ACID transactions, SQL query, search, eventing, and analytics capabilities, Capella ensures data reliability across multicloud clusters and offers top-tier security standards.
  • Mobile and IoT ready: Capella’s App Services support mobile and IoT applications that need to be always on, with offline data storage and seamless data sync between the database and edge devices.

Cost-saving features of Capella

Capella offers a flexible, scalable, and efficient NoSQL DBaaS solution, enhancing developer productivity, optimizing performance, and reducing costs across hardware, management, and database administration. 

• • Schema flexibility: JSON’s adaptability reduces costs linked to data modeling and schema modifications.
  • Scalability: Capella’s in-memory architecture ensures high performance and efficient resource utilization, eliminating the need for expensive resource upgrades.
  • Developer productivity: With JSON and SQL++, developers can work more efficiently, reducing development cycles and costs.
  • NoSQL strengths: Features like automatic sharding and geo-replication simplify database administration, reducing operational costs.
  • SQL++ efficiency: This query language allows developers to use their existing SQL skills, reducing training costs and development time.
  • Multi-model platform: Capella can handle various data access patterns, reducing the need for multiple databases and associated costs.
  • Price-performance: Capella’s industry-leading price-performance ratio ensures you get maximum value for your investment.
  • Multi-Dimensional Scaling: This capability allows for fine-tuned control over database services, optimizing resource consumption and performance.
  • High-density storage with Magma: This storage engine efficiently handles large datasets, reducing memory and hardware costs.
  • Reduced management overhead: Being a fully managed DBaaS, Capella reduces hardware, operational, and downtime costs.

Capella’s competitive edge

A 2023 study by Altoros compared leading NoSQL DBaaS platforms and found Couchbase Capella to have the best price-performance across a variety of workloads, especially for larger data needs. Price-performance factors in not only throughput but also software costs. Learn more and get the report.

Customer examples

Many Couchbase clients have shared their success stories on the third-party platform, TechValidate. These testimonials highlight significant improvements in performance metrics, including higher throughput, reduced latency, and accelerated query speeds. For instance, Amadeus, a global leader in travel technology, saw a return on investment in less than 12 months and reduced their TCO by over 50%. 

Several other companies across various industries have also benefited from Couchbase’s capabilities. Foundries.io, an Edge-Platform-as-a-Service provider, experienced a 100x performance boost after transitioning to Couchbase. Healthcare analytics firm BroadJump reduced storage needs by 50% and achieved faster query performance. Gannett, an American media conglomerate, cut licensing fees by 75% upon migrating to Couchbase. Lastly, a European SaaS company providing logistics solutions chose Capella and its App Services, resulting in improved agility, cost-efficiency, and a TCO reduction of over 45%.

Conclusion

Couchbase Capella DBaaS is not just a robust database solution; it’s a strategic tool for businesses looking to consolidate, streamline, and save costs. From its high-performance operations to its advanced security features, Capella offers a comprehensive package that ensures a reduced TCO for organizations. Whether you’re a developer or a business leader, Capella provides the tools and features to drive growth while keeping costs in check.

Learn more:

• • More customer stories:  Helping Customers Lower TCO ebook
  • Watch our reducing TCO webcast
  • Contact our team for a custom TCO evaluation