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What is Couchbase Capella & why is it different?

Couchbase Capella is a fully managed NoSQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) built for cloud-native speed, flexibility, and operational efficiency. In one platform, customers get leading price-performance for fast and flexible JSON applications, trusted mobile NoSQL for always-on apps, real-time JSON-native analytics with zero ETL, and built-in AI services for developing scalable, secure AI-powered applications—quickly and affordably. Try for free today and be up and running in minutes.

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Whether you're tackling development, architectural, or deployment challenges, there are many great reasons to future-proof with Capella.

Fast

Capella delivers industry-leading performance and high availability needed for modern cloud DBaaS and enterprise-grade apps.

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Affordable

Enjoy unmatched price-performance, flexible licensing, and operational transparency—helping you reduce total cost of ownership across your cloud DBaaS deployments.

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Versatile

Capella is multipurpose for a wide variety of use cases across industries – for transactions, search, AI, and mobile apps, with real-time analytics.

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Easy as SQL

Use Capella iQ, our built-in AI-powered coding assistant, and your own natural language to write SQL++ and code across a dozen SDKs and languages.

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Capella key capabilities

As a cloud-based DBaaS, Capella automates setup, scaling, management, and security—so developers can focus on innovation and getting to market faster. Explore powerful DBaaS features that streamline operations in any environment.

Development flexibility

Capella iQ, versatile JSON, built-in cache, text search, and analytics, for SDKs a dozen coding languages.

Vector search, RAG, agentic AI

Build better experiences in your apps with natural language conversations, powerful similarity search, and agentic AI.

Real-time analytics, operational write-back

Combines multisource zero ETL for JSON-native columnar analytics with iQ for faster ad hoc analysis and data write-back for better applications.

High availability and automated scaling

Fully managed with global reliability across clusters, regions, and AZs. 75+ regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Mobile and IoT app synchronization

For reliable mobile apps, even without internet. App Services: Sync, store, query, search, and analyze at the edge.

Security peace of mind

End-to-end encryption, from SDK to disk. Advanced RBAC. Capella compliances: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and more.

Get started with Capella today

Try Capella’s free DBaaS tier and be up and running in minutes.

  • Use sample data (or load your own)
  • Vector search support
  • AI-assisted coding
  • Learning playground
  • App Services for mobile

Run Couchbase Capella on your cloud of choice—AWS, Azure, or GCP. No credit card required.

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What customers are saying

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“Harnessing the power of the cloud through Capella has allowed us to successfully run applications across multiple regions in parallel quickly and seamlessly.”
Jae Beom Cho, Director of Game Infrastructure, Nexon
20 minutes to set up a new region
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“We selected Capella for ease of deployment and management. It lets us avoid infrastructure and helps us adapt faster to our clients’ needs while optimizing TCO.”
Spiros Tzoras, Lead Backend Engineer, Wallbid.io
<1s response times
Lotum
“Players are able to have a consistent experience without any disruptions. Since gamers have a low tolerance for delays, these capabilities are critical."
Lars Schmeller, Team Lead, Lotum
800 million downloads worldwide
10+ million monthly active users
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"Capella’s price-performance and edge capabilities make our team more agile and allow applications to remain synced. Capella Columnar is impressive, too."
Vigyan Kaushik, Co-founder and CEO, Quantic
50% reduction in query time
Make the most out of Couchbase Capella

See how you can use Capella for SQL-like querying, search, AI, and edge apps.

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Pricing

Choose the pricing plan that fits your needs—from a free Database-as-a-Service tier to full enterprise readiness. Capella’s flexible pricing supports everything from startup launches to modernizing legacy systems.

Free

For POCs, prototyping, and learning Couchbase. Start today!

Basic

Ideal for early design, development, and testing phases in a single AZ.

Developer Pro

For non-mission-critical apps that still need great speed.

Enterprise

For premium-level performance, service, security, and support.

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