Couchbase, Inc., a cloud database platform company, has announced a broad range of enhancements to its Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella. The new release of Capella will be accessible by developer platform Netlify and features a new Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension, making it easier for developers and development teams to build modern applications on Capella, streamline their workflows and increase productivity. And coinciding with National Cloud Database Day, Couchbase is also extending its enterprise deployability and introducing new features, allowing customers to move more applications to Capella with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

“The reality is that developers don’t want to spend their time operating and integrating separate primitives. Capella’s new developer platform integrations aims to address this widespread issue, minimising the developer experience gap and allowing teams to focus on what they do best writing code and solving problems,” says Rachel Stephens, senior analyst, RedMonk.

Simplifying a developer experience with Netlify, VS Code and Capella

Findings from Couchbase’s recent developer survey reveal that the majority of developers (94.9%) are currently at or over their work capacity, and are at the brink of or already feeling overwhelmed. To reduce this friction and help developers lower their number of operational tasks, Couchbase is extending Capella to more of the developer platform ecosystem that is highly favored by frontend and fullstack developers.

New developer integration for Capella makes it easy for developers to connect to Netlify for more simplified and agile web application development. In addition, the new VS Code extension is designed to provide a seamless experience for Capella users who want to work within the popular source-code editor. These ecosystem enhancements reduce friction so that developers can focus on building modern apps.

“Netlify’s platform unites an extensive ecosystem of technologies, services, and APIs into one workflow to empower developers to build composable web experiences with the tools that best suit their needs. In this way, Netlify meets their users where they are, allowing them to embrace the composable web in a manner that respects their existing businesses, while also balancing flexibility and enterprise-grade reliability. I’m a strong believer that when the ecosystem wins, we all win. That’s why we’re so excited to deepen our ties with Couchbase to strengthen and diversify the ecosystem of tools developers are using to build the modern web,” says Chris Bach, co-founder, chief strategy and creative officer, Netlify

Broader enterprise deployability and new enterprise features

Couchbase is also broadening Capella’s enterprise features and deployability so customers can move more applications to the cloud database platform. The new Capella enhancements deliver the following benefits:

• Support for time series data. A new time series array function in Couchbase’s support for JSON will support a broader set of use cases, such as IoT or finance apps that take measures. By using time series arrays, Couchbase is able to utilise all of its data access, processing and storage features including its patented array indexing and high-density storage engine. This approach will enable development teams to quickly and easily extend new features to their applications without adding complexity to their architecture or infrastructure, allowing them to be more agile and productive while driving cost efficiency.

• Extending deployability of Capella. Couchbase has added over 10 new supported regions across the three major CSPs, has added larger instance sizes, and is available directly in each of their marketplaces. Capella also adds support for memory-only buckets (ephemeral databases) for caching and transient data use cases. Security and compliance capabilities are enhancedthrough Google Cloud HIPAA compliance and with private endpoints for Azure.

• Enhanced management. Managing Capella is easier with the introduction of dynamic disk scaling, hibernation of clusters and enabling downloadable buckets. Also new is change-data-capture which offers the ability to recognise and automate change history on documents which is then streamable via Kafka to other applications.

These enhancements collectively position Capella as a single cloud database platform that offers broad multimodel support and in-memory performance a combination that lowers TCO for customers.

“We continue to broaden the Capella capabilities and make it easier for new developers to come on board and take advantage of the fastest and most comprehensive cloud database platform in the market,” says Scott Anderson, SVP of product management and business operations, Couchbase. “Development teams can get started with Capella more quickly and do more with our cloud database platform, improving efficiency and productivity. And for operations teams, Capella becomes even easier to deploy and manage while broadened enterprise capabilities handle more workloads at a fraction of the cost compared to other document-based DBaaS offerings.”

The new release of Capella will be generally available in the second quarter. Couchbase will host a webcast on June 7 and 8 to discuss what’s new in Capella and how customers can benefit from the latest enhancements. Register here.

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