{"id":12626,"date":"2021-12-22T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=12626"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:49:02","slug":"hey-community-edition-users-is-couchbase-capella-dbaas-your-next-best-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/hey-community-edition-users-is-couchbase-capella-dbaas-your-next-best-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Community Edition Users! Is Couchbase Capella DBaaS Your Next Best Move?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We pride ourselves on the fact that some of the world\u2019s largest companies rely on Couchbase every day to tackle critical use cases for their most important applications. At the same time, we know that not every application starts off as mission-critical. There is of course a lot of space between a minimal viable product and an application that is vital to your organization\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

The Purpose of Community Edition (CE)<\/h4>\n

Our Community Edition of Couchbase Server was designed for teams to get started with Couchbase and handle more simple use cases. It\u2019s great for what it is, but CE is not intended for enterprise application scaling requirements, which is why the license limits cluster size to five nodes. That said, some customers have built very fast, in-memory processing applications on top of CE and then grown those applications in ways that really push the boundaries of what CE should do. This may not have been the plan, but sometimes things grow in unexpected ways and you just have to move quickly with what you have in place. And we get it; CE is free, which is always a nice price when you are trying to keep costs down. But let\u2019s face it, as those CE-based applications have grown in importance, they don\u2019t get access to our Support team. Additionally, they don\u2019t get access to Enterprise Edition (EE) features which can be limiting in terms of scalability, availability, and performance. And like any downloadable database, CE has to be managed (Updates, back-ups, upgrades,…), which becomes more challenging as the application scales. And be mindful that CE does not undergo the same \u201ctest, fix, and verify\u201d quality assurance cycles as EE. Fortunately for the community, CE is a high quality product, but we don\u2019t know what issues will pop up out of the blue…<\/p>\n

Capella Provides a Ton of Value<\/h4>\n

With the launch of Couchbase Capella<\/a>, our fully managed and hosted database-as-a-service, we have seen strong interest from organizations that have applications built upon CE. Why? Because as applications grow in scope and become more important to the business, they need more help supporting them. Capella delivers a tremendous amount of value and provides an affordable and smart way for customers to move beyond CE.<\/p>\n

With Capella, organizations get:<\/p>\n