Top Reasons to Upgrade From Couchbase Enterprise Edition to Couchbase Capella™
Our Capella DBaaS lowers costs while easing manageability and scalability. Plus, a built-in AI Data Plane™ makes it the go-to choice for AI applications.
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 AI 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.
Talk to our team
Our Professional Services experts will ensure the fastest, easiest, and most successful migration path.
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.
Learn more
Find out more about both upgrade options and let us walk you through our DIY guide.
What customers are saying
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“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, Seenit500K+
videos stored
75K+
users
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“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, Quantic50%
reduction in query time
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“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, Centrica70K+
users
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“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 Hearing250+
projects
10K
audio files per project
Couchbase Enterprise Edition to Capella FAQ
Get quick answers about why you should migrate from Couchbase Enterprise Edition to Couchbase Capella.
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.
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.
Yes. Over 53% of Couchbase customers reduced TCO by 50% or more after migrating to Capella by eliminating infrastructure, licensing, and operational management overhead.
Capella adds managed model hosting, data processing, automated vectorization, and AI Functions, which are not yet available in Enterprise.
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.