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Why Couchbase?
Couchbase is an award-winning distributed NoSQL cloud database that delivers unmatched versatility, performance, scalability, and financial value for all of your cloud, mobile, analytic, AI, and edge computing applications. Couchbase embraces AI with coding assistance for developers, real-time analytics, and cloud to edge vector search for their applications.
High performance to lower TCO
Couchbase offers impressive memory-first performance for your important applications. And, workloads can be performance-tuned for each application which can dramatically lower operating costs.
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const bucket = cluster.bucket('travel.sample');
const collection = bucket.defaultCollection();
await collection.upsert('user_1024', {
'name' : 'Don Chamberlin',
'tags' : ['SQL', 'SQL++']
})
const result = await collection.get('user_1024');
console.log(result);
Developer-friendly
Couchbase Capella combines the schema flexibility of JSON documents with the ease of AI-assisted coding to help developers build distributed, transactional applications in their favorite languages.
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SELECT
a.name,
COUNT(r.airline) AS numberOfRoutes
FROM 'travel-sample'. inventory.route AS r
JOIN 'travel-sample'. inventory.route AS a ON KEYS r.airlineid
WHERE a.country = "United States"
GROUP BY a.name
ORDER BY numberOfRoutes DESC;
Versatility without complexity
Couchbase does the work of multiple databases, including key-value, JSON, SQL, text and vector search, graph, time-series, eventing, and Columnar analytics. This simplifies your data architecture without sacrificing features for your AI-powered adaptive application.
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// key/value
await collection.upsert('destination:1000', { name: 'Paris' });
// full text search
const result = await cluster.searchQuery("travel-fts-index",
couchbase.SearchQuery.match('Eiffel Tower'), { limit: 10 }
);
// SQL++
const sqlQuery = 'SELECT name FROM `travel` WHERE country = "France"';
const sqlResult = await cluster.query(sqlQuery);
Distributed database architecture
User-centric, modern applications have unique requirements including the need for multiple data access patterns that reduce architectural complexity, offer mobility, and superior distributed performance across your favorite cloud.
AI-ready Couchbase Enterprise Server
Robust, high-performance, transactional NoSQL database with SQL for JSON.
Couchbase Capella Columnar
Fully managed real-time analytics for JSON with Zero ETL.
Couchbase Mobile with vector search
Mobile database with vector search and edge sync services.
Cloud deployment on your terms
Choose your cloud and choose who manages the database.
Integrate smoothly with our cloud partners
Easily deploy and manage your cloud strategy with the leading public cloud providers and services.
“We found that the replication technology across data centers for Couchbase was superior, especially for large workloads.”
“With less than half the servers, we can increase performance and gain a much better scalable architecture.”
“Couchbase is a highly scalable distributed data store that plays a critical role in our caching systems.”
“Enterprise-class boxes cost lots of money. We can scale and be highly available with commodity hardware.”
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