Couchbase offers its database solutions in three main varieties: the cost-free Community Edition, the feature-rich Enterprise Edition, and Couchbase Capella, a fully hosted cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS). Many customers start with the Community Edition for noncritical workloads and later upgrade to the Enterprise Edition or Capella to gain enhanced security, performance, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) as their business demands increase. Examples of this progression include Bublup, which moved to the Enterprise Edition to handle increased scalability and data control requirements; Quantic, which adopted Capella for its powerful offline-sync capabilities and reduced developer workload; Hammerhead, which upgraded for improved data syncing and software release management; and LinkedIn, which chose Enterprise for its low latency and performance at scale. These customer journeys illustrate how Couchbase’s various offerings can cater to different business needs as they evolve.