{"id":16238,"date":"2024-09-03T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=16238"},"modified":"2025-06-13T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:54:23","slug":"free-tier-capella-columnar-mobile-vector-search-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/free-tier-capella-columnar-mobile-vector-search-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Couchbase Capella Advancements Fuel Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we are pleased to announce three major advancements for Capella, the cloud database platform for modern applications, including GenAI, vector search, and mobile application services.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the general availability of <\/span>Capella Columnar<\/span><\/a>, which enables real-time, zero ETL JSON-native data analytics that run independently from operational workloads within a single database platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also generally available is <\/span>Couchbase Mobile with vector search<\/span><\/a>, which makes it possible for customers to offer semantic, similarity and hybrid search in their applications at the edge that work even without internet.<\/span><\/p>\n

We also announced today Capella Free Tier, a perpetual free workspace in the Capella Database-as-a-Service designed to help developers get started on Capella without any financial commitment, making it ideal for learning, development, and small projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capella Columnar Converges Operational and Real-time Analytics<\/span><\/h2>\n

Many organizations, including Couchbase customers, have embraced the flexibility of JSON when building business-critical applications. However, while JSON is often the programmer’s preferred data format, it can be difficult to use for traditional analytic systems that expect data to conform to more rigid structures. Without formal structures, business intelligence teams spend too much time on data transformation and hygiene just to include operational JSON data in their analysis. This is why so much JSON data remains dormant. <\/span><\/p>\n

Couchbase is the only NoSQL database vendor who offers key-value and columnar storage options for operational and analytic workloads on a single platform, providing customers the power and flexibility to make JSON data useful in analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capella Columnar addresses the challenge of parsing, transforming and persisting JSON data into an analysis-ready columnar format. It supports real-time, multi-source ingestion of data not only from Couchbase, but also using common systems like Kafka to draw data from other third party JSON or SQL databases. <\/span><\/p>\n

By using Capella iQ, our AI-powered coding assistant, Capella Columnar simplifies analysis by writing SQL++ for developers, eliminating the need to wait for the BI team. Once an important metric is calculated, it can immediately be written back to the Capella operational cluster, which can use the metric data within the application.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Capella Columnar Overview<\/p><\/div>\n

Capella Columnar reduces latency, complexity and cost to empower organizations to build real-time adaptive applications. For example, it can enable more personalized experiences in an e-commerce application so retailers can provide custom offers that enhance revenue, or build in customer-facing metrics in a gaming application to accelerate engagement. As AI enhances these applications, Capella Columnar positions Couchbase to meet the growing demand for high-performing, personalized and intelligent adaptive solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n