{"id":13648,"date":"2022-08-10T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=13648"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:32:01","slug":"couchbase-ce-update-to-capella-dbaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-ce-update-to-capella-dbaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to Couchbase Capella from Community Edition Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase is a NoSQL database platform that offers several editions and deployment options, including a free installation binary as well as a fully managed database as a service. This blog briefly compares our free Couchbase Community Edition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/capella\/\">Couchbase Capella\u2122<\/a> DBaaS, and presents some of the benefits of upgrading to the managed service. To ensure that both editions were evaluated under the same conditions, I implemented and executed The YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) specification Workload E as a baseline.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is Couchbase Community Edition (CE)?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Edition (CE) is a free installation binary of the Couchbase Server distributed NoSQL database. It is designed for very simple applications that need a flexible JSON datastore and basic availability, performance, scaling, and security capabilities. Applications developed on CE are fully portable to Capella. There is no lock-in to the CE environment however, clusters are limited to five nodes by its BSL 1.1 license. CE includes multi-model <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">data access services that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0interact with the data in a CE cluster:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Key-value:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The ability to read\/write data via a \u201ckey\u201d lookup, which is extremely fast, especially given Couchbase\u2019s memory-first architecture, and is great for simplicity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>SQL++ (SQL for JSON):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> SQL syntax support is a database industry standard data access method.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Full-text Search (FTS):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A text \u201csearch engine\u201d for data that also supports geography-based searches and fuzzy search matches.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Couchbase Capella?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/capella\/\">Couchbase Capella<\/a> is a fully managed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/what-is-a-database-as-a-service-dbaas-why-is-it-important\/\">Database-as-a-Service<\/a> (DBaaS) that enables users to focus on utilizing the functionality available in the product by eliminating database management activities. It\u2019s the easiest and fastest way to begin working with Couchbase. For multi-model access, Capella offers key-value, SQL++, and full-text search along with additional Couchbase services like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Analytics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Query data with complex, ad hoc SQL++ queries in an isolated environment with multi-tenant support.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Eventing:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Developers can write JavaScript functions that respond to data change events.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>App Services for mobile synchronization mobile:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Offline-first embeddable database, Couchbase Lite that offers both peer-to-peer and client\/server data synchronization with Couchbase Server.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comparison<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To ensure symmetry and an equal benchmark, the same YCSB workload was exercised against both CE and Capella. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Workload E<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a short-range scan workload in which ranges of records are queried instead of individual ones with a scan\/update ratio of 95%-5%. This workload simulates threaded conversations with a lot of scan requests and periodic updates. In real-world situations, an example of a scan operation is an e-commerce app with users viewing a product catalog and occasionally buying products that create some update requests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The comparison focused on installation and cluster setup, and performance of CE as compared to Capella. Using 8 CPU, 16GB RAM machines for the Capella cluster, and c4.2xlarge matching EC2 instances for the CE cluster running the Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS operating system on five node clusters due to the CE node limitation. The workload was executed on 20,000,000 records using five access clients, each issuing 20 worker threads for a total of 100 threads. The following scan\/update queries were used to execute Workload E.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCAN query using\u00a0Couchbase SQL++:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"top-set:false bottom-set:false nums:false nums-toggle:false wrap-toggle:false plain-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">SELECT meta().id FROM `bucket` WHERE meta().id &gt;= $1 ORDER BY meta().id LIMIT $2<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE query using Couchbase SQL++:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"top-set:false bottom-set:false nums:false nums-toggle:false wrap-toggle:false plain-toggle:false lang:default decode:true \">collection.replace(id, content, replaceOptions().timeout(kvTimeout).expiry(documentExpiry).durability(persistTo, replicateTo))<\/pre>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Installation and cluster setup<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although setting up a CE cluster is easy for an open source platform it can\u2019t compare to Capella DBaaS in terms of level of effort. Installing CE involved several steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create five AWS EC2 machines with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS operating system<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.couchbase.com\/server\/current\/install\/ubuntu-debian-install.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Install CE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on each node; the minimum steps for the OS are:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Download the meta package.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<pre class=\"nums:false nums-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">curl -O https:\/\/packages.couchbase.com\/releases\/couchbase-release\/couchbase-release-1.0-amd64.deb<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Install the meta package.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<pre class=\"nums:false nums-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">sudo dpkg -i .\/couchbase-release-1.0-amd64.deb<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reload the local package database.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<pre class=\"nums:false nums-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Install Couchbase Server CE latest package.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<pre class=\"nums:false nums-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">sudo apt-get install couchbase-server-community<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create a cluster on one CE node\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Log in to the primary machine and add each node to the cluster based on node IP<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating a Capella cluster requires the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simply sign up for an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.couchbase.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">account<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create a new project using Capella Control Plane user interface\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create a cluster using the same user interface\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Performance<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CE doesn\u2019t have full multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). Node combinations are limited to\u00a0data, index, query; full-text search, data, index, query;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or data only.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This means service combinations cannot be modeled to perfectly fit specific workloads. A CE cluster can only contain five nodes or less and Couchbase Analytics and Eventing services are not available.\u00a0This node limit means that CE is more suitable for small, non-production environments. Index replicas are also not available. This can impact CE cluster performance. In the YCSB Workload E comparison, Capella had approximately 3x better throughput and 20% lower latency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CPU utilization graph screenshots below demonstrate how a CE cluster running work Workload E of the YCSB specification only fully utilizes one node versus a Capella cluster where all the nodes are utilized for processing. With Capella there is no wasted capacity, all the nodes are fully available and can have replicated indices. This means that Capella beats CE performance with less hardware, leading to lower overall costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-09_174013358.png\" alt=\"cpu-usage-monitoring-capella\" width=\"895\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-09_174013358.png 895w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-09_174013358-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-09_174013358-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-09_174013358-20x9.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Summary<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This YCSB Workload E comparison demonstrates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/capella\/\">Couchbase Capella<\/a> is a more complete database than Couchbase Community Edition. Capella is more flexible and includes additional services like Analytics, Eventing, and a mature Mobile suite. On the other hand, limitations such as no index replicas, restricted MDS, and a node ceiling of five make CE a better fit for smaller workloads where performance is less important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With Capella, you get 3x better performance and a cloud-native design \u2013 all with limitless scaling, high availability with geo-replication, cross-data center replication (XDCR), and flexible disaster recovery. Capella lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) by virtually eliminating operational and management costs while providing an enterprise-level NoSQL document store to support the demands of modern applications.\u00a0 This is why you need to upgrade from CE to Capella NOW!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next steps<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn more about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/capella\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Capella<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take Capella for a test drive by signing up for a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.couchbase.com\/?href=Playground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">free 30-day trial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.couchbase.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connect your trial cluster to the Playground<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or connect a project to test it out for yourself.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you&#8217;re already using Capella, you can interact with your cluster by using the interactive Couchbase shell or via the Capella Control plane to:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out the document viewer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connect to a project<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take a look at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.couchbase.com\/learn\/capella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capella Learning Path<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tutorials<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.couchbase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Developer Portal<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has tons of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.couchbase.com\/tutorials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tutorials\/quickstart guides<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.couchbase.com\/learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">learning paths<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to help you get started!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.couchbase.com\/home\/sdk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See the documentation<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to learn more about the Couchbase SDKs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you for reading this article! If you have any questions or comments, please connect with us on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/forums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forums!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couchbase is a NoSQL database platform that offers several editions and deployment options, including a free installation binary as well as a fully managed database as a service. 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