Best Distributed Database Platform & Free Cloud NoSQL DBaaS

Why Couchbase?

Couchbase is an award-winning distributed NoSQL database that delivers unmatched versatility, performance, scalability, and financial value for all of your cloud, mobile, analytic, AI, and edge computing applications. Our platform embraces AI with coding assistance for developers, real-time analytics, and cloud-to-edge vector search for their applications.

High performance to lower TCO

Couchbase offers impressive memory-first performance for your important applications. Workloads can be performance-tuned for each application, which can dramatically lower operating costs.

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const bucket = cluster.bucket('travel.sample');
const collection = bucket.defaultCollection();
await collection.upsert('user_1024', {
    'name' : 'Don Chamberlin',
    'tags' : ['SQL', 'SQL++']
})
const result = await collection.get('user_1024');
console.log(result);
Developer-friendly

Couchbase Capella database as a service combines the schema flexibility of JSON documents with the ease of AI-assisted coding to help developers build distributed, transactional applications in their favorite languages.

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SELECT
    a.name,
    COUNT(r.airline) AS numberOfRoutes
FROM 'travel-sample'. inventory.route AS r
JOIN 'travel-sample'. inventory.route AS a ON KEYS r.airlineid 
WHERE a.country = "United States"
GROUP BY a.name
ORDER BY numberOfRoutes DESC;
Versatility without complexity

Couchbase does the work of multiple databases, including key-value, JSON, SQL, text and vector search, graph, time-series, eventing, and Columnar analytics. This simplifies your data architecture without sacrificing features for your AI-powered adaptive application.

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// key/value
await collection.upsert('destination:1000', { name: 'Paris' });
// full text search
const result =  await cluster.searchQuery("travel-fts-index",
    couchbase.SearchQuery.match('Eiffel Tower'), { limit: 10 }
);
// SQL++
const sqlQuery = 'SELECT name FROM `travel` WHERE country = "France"';
const sqlResult = await cluster.query(sqlQuery);

Distributed database architecture

User-centric, modern applications have unique requirements including the need for multiple data access patterns that reduce architectural complexity, offer mobility, and superior distributed performance across your favorite cloud.

AI-ready Couchbase Enterprise Server

Robust, high-performance, transactional NoSQL database with SQL for JSON.

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Couchbase Capella Columnar

Fully managed real-time analytics for JSON with Zero ETL.

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Couchbase Mobile with vector search

Mobile database with vector search and edge sync services.

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Cloud deployment on your terms

Choose your cloud and choose who manages the database.

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A database platform with solutions for development team's unique use cases

Developers and architects hate complex, unscalable data architectures because they slow down applications, increase costs, and crush productivity. Couchbase helps developers address these use case issues from every angle.

Integrate smoothly with our cloud partners

Easily deploy and manage your cloud strategy with the leading public cloud providers and services.

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