Company
Date Published
Author
Tim Rottach, Director of Product Line Marketing
Word count
374
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Capella, a fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) by Couchbase, is now available on Microsoft Azure, expanding its reach to all three major cloud providers and supporting multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies. Designed for modern applications, Capella simplifies database management, reduces costs, and offers development flexibility with support for JSON documents, key-value storage, SQL access, and features like full-text search, eventing, and analytics. Its architecture ensures fast response times and cost efficiency, particularly as users scale, and it includes capabilities for mobile and IoT app synchronization, high availability, and automated scaling. The platform is user-friendly, resembling tools like GitHub, and uses SQL++ as the query language, enhancing agility and productivity. Users are encouraged to explore Capella through demos, free trials, and community engagement to maximize its benefits for their applications.