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Couchbase Server to Capella migration guide

Use our step-by-step migration guide for detailed, yet easy-to-follow, instructions!

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Build GenAI faster, safer, and smarter with lower TCO

Capella drives down TCO by reducing overall complexity, management efforts, and costs to build more scalable AI.

Reduce costs

Lower your technology, operational, and LLM costs with our powerful database and caching.

Offload management headaches

No longer worry about patches, upgrades, maintenance, and infrastructure.

Built for GenAI

Capella includes the AI Data Plane and billion-scale vector search to make apps faster and safer.

Capella is Enterprise as a service and more

Capella gives you the power of Enterprise Edition as a service along with our best AI capabilities, lower risk, and less management.

Future-proof with AI

The AI Data Plane accelerates building scalable and safe GenAI applications.

Simplify management

Automate time-consuming tasks and free up developer resources for key projects.

Reduce risk

Improve availability and disaster recovery while increasing scalability.

Lower TCO

Reduce costs for compute, storage, and networking while eliminating many operational and management costs.

Next steps

Ready to upgrade to Capella? Simplify your process for a smooth migration.

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Our Professional Services experts will ensure the fastest, easiest, and most successful migration path.

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Do it yourself

Use our migration guide for detailed, yet easy-to-follow, steps and tips. If you have any questions, we’re here to help.

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What customers are saying

seenit
"Switching to Capella enabled us to offload support, upgrades, and management to Couchbase. This has been a no-brainer from my point of view."
Ian Merrington, CTO, Seenit
500K+ videos stored
75K+ users
Quantic-capella
"Capella’s impressive price performance and edge capabilities give our developer team a more agile experience and allow our clients’ apps to remain synced."
Vigyan Kaushik, Co-founder and CEO, Quantic
50% reduction in query time
Hi-Tech-customer
"By migrating to Capella, we have been able to reduce our reliance on infrastructure, thereby cutting down our infrastructure maintenance and operational costs."
Titu Joseph Rajan, Head of Integration, Centrica
70K+ users
Equifax
“When our environment was self-managed, we were reluctant to make a change until it was absolutely necessary.”
Brad Brane, Manager of Software Development and Support, Faith Comes By Hearing
250+ projects
10K audio files per project
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Couchbase Enterprise Edition to Capella FAQ

Get quick answers about why you should migrate from Couchbase Enterprise Edition to Couchbase Capella.

  • How do Enterprise Edition and Capella compare?

    Enterprise Edition is self-managed on your own infrastructure. Capella is the fully managed cloud equivalent with automated backups, scaling, and high availability built in.

  • Is Capella compatible with Enterprise Edition?

    Yes. Capella supports the same SQL++ queries, JSON data model, SDKs, and APIs as Enterprise Edition, so most applications migrate with minimal or no code changes required.

  • Does Capella cost less than Enterprise Edition?

    Yes. Over 53% of Couchbase customers reduced TCO by 50% or more after migrating to Capella by eliminating infrastructure, licensing, and operational management overhead.

  • What AI features does Capella add over Enterprise?

    Capella adds managed model hosting, data processing, automated vectorization, and AI Functions, which are not yet available in Enterprise.

  • How long does migrating to Capella take?

    Migration timelines vary by dataset size and complexity. Couchbase provides guided migration tooling and a dedicated team to help Enterprise Edition customers move to Capella quickly and safely.

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