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Couchbase is introducing generative AI capabilities into its Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella™ to significantly enhance developer productivity and accelerate time to market for modern applications.

The new capability called Capella iQ enables developers to write SQL++ and application-level code more quickly by delivering recommended sample code. Couchbase also announced additional Capella updates that further enhance the developer experience, increase efficiency and ease operations.

Powered by generative AI, Capella iQ uses foundation models to add intelligence to the Capella developer workbench integrated development environment (IDE). With Capella iQ, developers can use natural language to quickly and easily generate code, sample datasets and unit tests. Capella iQ also advises on index creation, search syntax and other programmatic access to Capella. Leveraging generative AI to build and test applications quicker in Capella delivers higher productivity and quality, resulting in faster time to market.

“Code that used to take hours for a developer to write will now be generated in a matter of minutes in sample sets from Capella iQ,” said Scott Anderson, SVP of product management and business operations at Couchbase. “This makes developers more efficient when building modern apps, ultimately accelerating innovation for customers. By incorporating generative AI into our fully managed DBaaS, we are making it easier for developers to get started with Capella and significantly boost their productivity.”

“From day one, Couchbase has architected a cloud database platform that enables the most business-critical and demanding applications to perform and provide rich, personalized, differentiated experiences for end users. Combining operational and analytical capabilities, our multi-model platform also seamlessly integrates advanced services like indexing, eventing, full-text search and more in a single solution,” said Matt Cain, chair, president and CEO of Couchbase. “Generative AI is the next great catalyst for modern applications and our customers are exploring ways to build AI-powered apps that can run anywhere with our platform.”

For example, Capella App Services enables edge AI through a predictive query API, which allows mobile applications to use trained machine learning models to run predictive queries locally on mobile devices against stored data. Additionally, Couchbase customers can use Python user-defined functions to run models against the database.

“We are innovating and building for the exciting generative AI market opportunity by driving developer productivity with Capella iQ, expanding our multi-model functions, optimizing AI processing and enabling AI apps from cloud to edge while also building a vibrant AI partner ecosystem,” continued Cain. “Couchbase has been uniquely built for this moment and we are investing in additional AI capabilities that will further extend the value of Couchbase as a cloud database platform for modern applications.”

Couchbase also announced several other new updates to Capella that further enhance the developer experience, increase efficiency and make it easier to operate the cloud database platform. The customer benefits include:

- Simplified developer experience: Couchbase is extending Capella to more of the developer platform ecosystem highly favored by frontend and full stack developers. New integrations with popular developer tools Vercel and the IntelliJ family of IDEs further reduce friction for developers and development teams.

- More intelligent operations: By dynamically scaling the disk storage and input/output operations per second (IOPS), Capella clusters can handle growing workloads more efficiently, resulting in faster response times with an improved user experience. The increased disk IOPS enables Capella clusters to handle higher levels of concurrent read and write operations. This ensures that applications remain highly available even during peak usage periods and contributes further to Capella’s best-in-class price performance.

- Increased security and governance: Capella has achieved independent validation for PCI DSS 4.0 and CSA STAR Level 2 compliance. These enhancements complement the SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance that Couchbase Capella has already achieved, meeting broad enterprise requirements for cloud applications.

These new enhancements are generally available in Capella.