Couchbase has announced three major advancements for its Capella cloud database platform, including the general availability of Capella Columnar, which enables real-time, zero ETL JSON-native data analytics that run independently from operational workloads within a single database platform. This addresses the challenge of parsing, transforming and persisting JSON data into an analysis-ready columnar format, simplifying analysis by writing SQL++ for developers, eliminating the need to wait for the BI team. Additionally, Couchbase Mobile with vector search has been released, enabling cloud-to-edge AI capabilities without dependencies on the internet, making it ideal for mobile apps that require semantic, similarity and hybrid search. The company has also introduced Capella Free Tier, a perpetual free workspace in the Capella Database-as-a-Service designed to help developers get started on Capella without any financial commitment, making it ideal for learning, development, and small projects. Furthermore, Couchbase Capella provides developer productivity advancements such as AI-powered coding assistant Capella iQ, plugins and extensions that accelerate application development, and new AI integrations that leverage vector search capabilities. These advancements aim to help customers reduce costs and simplify operations while enabling developers to create trustworthy, AI-powered adaptive applications that run from cloud to edge.