Couchbase is announcing the general availability of Azure Blob Storage support for external Analytics collections, allowing customers to combine data from external sources with local data and remote Couchbase data. This feature provides dynamic querying and analysis capabilities, enabling users to easily integrate data from various sources in real-time. The process involves setting up links to external data stores, creating an external Analytics collection, and querying the data using SQL++. External Analytics collections support JSON, CSV, and TSV file formats, including compressed GZIP files, and can be used for data enrichment, dynamic data access, and parallel query processing. This new functionality unlocks the value of external live and archived data residing in external data stores, enabling faster and more comprehensive data analyses and agile decision-making.