Couchbase's new Capella columnar service is designed to enable real-time data analysis and improve agility and performance for organizations building modern, real-time adaptive applications. It addresses the challenge of operationalizing real-time data analytics by providing a single database platform that converges operational and real-time analytics, eliminating friction and delivering premium customer experiences through hyper-personalization and contextualized insights. The service offers a columnar store, extensive data integration, and real-time ingestion capabilities powered by Apache Kafka, enabling customers to build adaptive applications with improved ease of use for developers, reduced complexity and cost, and enhanced performance. By integrating Capella columnar with Couchbase's other services, organizations can create specialized storage containers for transactional operational data and analytic data, optimized for fast performance and better compression, IO throughput, and resource utilization. This allows customers to execute large-scale, real-time analytic calculations that can be used as new data is available in applications, enabling them to deliver adaptive applications with exceptional performance, situational awareness, cross-connected account personalization information, and automation capabilities.