UPDATED 10:34 EDT / OCTOBER 26 2021

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Support for wide range of app-driven capabilities guides Couchbase’s latest database enhancement

Before most people have their second cup of coffee in the morning, they have probably already accessed tens if not hundreds of applications. From mobile phones to laptops, tablets, watches and even the connected car, today’s world is app-driven.

To work properly, apps must draw from structured and unstructured data that requires a robust database to serve that information. Apps are tied to a key set of capabilities of great interest to most enterprises in service of the customer, and this is where database providers such as Couchbase Inc. become a central part of the story.

“There are legacy applications that have been built or optimized for many years that are storing critical information and algorithms, which need to be combined with those new capabilities to create the experience people are after,” said Matt Cain (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Couchbase. “That’s easier said than done. The challenges to do that at a database layer are fundamentally sophisticated, with some of the most advanced computer science challenges that exist in all of technology. That is what Couchbase is all about.”

Cain spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Couchbase ConnectONLINE event. They discussed the release of a new database-as-a-service offering and the company’s drive to provide maximum freedom for where enterprises choose to run workloads and apps. (* Disclosure below.)

Fast path to agility

To fulfill its mission of solving unmet and underserved needs in the database world, Couchbase recently introduced Capella, an automated, fully managed version of its NoSQL Couchbase Server. Capella is being launched on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s platform, with a control plane to integrate more than 20 AWS services.

“Enterprises want freedom of choice in how they consume, deploy, run and manage their database,” Cain said. “They want the fastest path to developer agility and productivity, and they want the best total cost of ownership relative to other database-as-a-service offerings. That is exactly what we have provided with Couchbase Capella.”

Although Capella has been engineered to run in the public cloud on AWS, Couchbase has been focused on developing its platform to run across a broad swath of the IT ecosystem.

“We’ve architected our platform to run anywhere so enterprises enjoy the benefits of running in all major public clouds; they can run in private datacenters, and they can run all the way out to the edge,” Cain noted. “Couchbase has been built for the highest scale and performance to run in that distributed environment.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Couchbase ConnectONLINE event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Couchbase ConnectONLINE event. Neither Couchbase Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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