>>Okay. We're here at the cube covering Couchbase connect online 2021 modernized. Now this is Dave Vellante and I'm here with Couchbase CEO, Matt Kane. We just saw them at your keynote, blending out the journey to the modern enterprise. Thanks for taking some time with us. >>Hey, thanks, Dave. Great to see you again. Hope everything's well with you. >>Good. Thank you. You know, hanging in there. So look, the big themes from my standpoint, where it's not just about what I call paving the cow path. What I mean by that is just moving old to new, you know, that's good. And it's gonna allow you to simplify and be more agile. But the point I take away is you should also build a new capabilities, maybe share some of your thoughts and add some color, please, to those takeaways. >>I think that's a great takeaway, Dave. And when we think about this, we step back and we put ourselves in the shoes of our customers and whether it's retail customers or next generation financial services or healthcare providers, or what have you each and every one of our customers around the world are thinking about how to create better experiences for their customers. And Dave, we go through this every day, whether it's on our personal lives or in our professional lives, we expect our technology to help us and create better, highly interactive, personalized experiences via the applications that we leverage throughout the day. And you and I have probably access tens if not, hundreds of applications up to this point, uh, today. And we'll, we'll do that as we continue to go forward. And so if you think about, well, what are the challenges of these enterprises to create those experiences? >>Well, at the end of the day, they're writing applications and those applications need to draw upon massive amounts of data and to provide the experiences that we're talking about today. It's not just structured information, but it's unstructured information. And how do I put that together in a seamless way that I create real-time runtime experiences? Well, at the end of the day software, um, developers can, can write code to do anything, but on the critical path of all that is a database. And if you don't have a database that can serve these applications, you're dead in the water. And so as the enterprise thinks about building applications, they're constantly thinking about new capabilities. How can I provide a recommendation engine for Dave, or how can I ensure that the promotion fits the needs of him and his family when he's booking a particular trip, but at the same time, there's legacy applications that have been built and optimized for many, many years, that that are storing critical information and algorithms that need to be combined with those new capabilities to create the experience of people are after. >>And so when you really look at it from a database perspective, you have to modernize your application stack, but you also have to combine that with new capabilities. Now that's easier said than done. The challenge is to do at a database layer are fundamentally sophisticated and some of the most advanced computer science challenges that exist in all of technology. And that is what Couchbase is about. We have carefully architected a platform that bridges some of the best of relational technology with that of modern, no SQL technology in a single integrated platform that services not only enterprise architects, but application developers to provide the very experiences that you and I have come to expect, and that we're going to expect to increase as, as we go forward. So you're absolutely right. It is about putting those two things together. So is that, >>Is that w what you just described is that what you mean by multimodal two-part question? And then the second part is, are you seeing any industry patterns where that appears to be more relevant? >>So when we, when we talk about multimodal, Dave, we're very specific in, in what that means, and, and that's essentially taking a platform approach to data management. So how do we ensure that we have multiple ways to manage data inside of our platform? Couchbase is a key value cache or a document data store. We support, uh, acid transactions, and we've also added operational analytics. And so if you think about all of those modalities, a lot of application teams would think, well, do I need disparate solutions, uh, you know, to, to solve those problems. We think it's of fundamental importance as the modern database for enterprise applications, that we put that together in a single platform, because that's how applications want to be, uh, developed on top of that. We layer on additional services that developers can take advantage of to right, you know, these really rich, personalized, uh, applications. >>And so, as we think about our path forward and some of the market dynamics, we see one of the dynamics that we think is going to play out over the next few years is enterprises. Can't continue to proliferate point solutions for all these disparate problems that they solve. They need to bet on strategic solutions that are going to be platforms to support many of these needs as these go, as they go forward, particularly as they think about long-term total cost of ownership. And when we think about the modalities we're supporting and the enterprise applications we support, we want to ensure that we are a tool that can be leveraged for the right use cases, and then make sure that we have the connection points to other solutions that were not built and optimize for, to have a complete solution for our enterprise customers. So multi-modal layer consolidation platform approach. We think this is going to be absolutely critical as we get into the next chapters of the database transition. >>Great. Thank you for that. So you just described, you know, your UVP to me anyway, your unique value proposition. And I wonder if you could, in thinking about the market big waves that are occurring now, the hybrid work, digitization, the reliance on cloud and cloud migration, how does your unique value prop tie in if you will vector in to those trends that we also often talk about? >>Yeah. Great question, Dave. I appreciate you raising that. So what, what I was articulating, um, were some really important attributes of what may Couchbase Couchbase that were multimodal. We take a platform approach under the hood. Dave, we take great pride in the architectural approach that we have, um, up to this point in building that platform, uh, we're an in-memory shared nothing scale out cloud native architecture that has been designed for today and the future scale and performance. 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 data centers and they can run all the way out to the edge in a single integrated platform with continuity between any point of that network. Topology, if I'm an active, active, active, fail over active, active, passive, any one of those configurations, that is the dependency of distributed applications. >>And we as users want the application to be up and running with the appropriate amount of data wherever. And whenever we are Couchbase has been built for the highest scale and performance to run in that distributed environment. With those modalities that I talked about now to increase, uh, our relevance in the enterprise. There are two personas that we think about a lot. One of them are the architects who are responsible for ensuring that things run in public clouds, that they scale and perform that they meet the SLS of the businesses they serve. But critically important. As you know, Dave is the role of application developers. They got to write killer apps. And so if you think about the needs of enterprise architects, scale performance, reliability, GDPR, CCPA security, those are really, really important. Developers are focused on flexibility, ease of use agility also really, really important, putting those together in an integrated platform. That's what makes Couchbase Couchbase. And there is no other vendor that can bring those capabilities tied to the themes of data, explosion, everything happening at the edge, a single platform that can leverage structured and unstructured information. When we talk about being ready for this moment and why we're so excited about our future and why you're hearing customers say the amazing things they are at our show, it's because of that unique architecture and, and the fact that Couchbase is truly differentiated as a modern database for enterprise applications for the future. >>You know, sometimes those things are counter poised, right? The architectural Providence, and the need for developer agility. That is a nontrivial challenge. Um, in, in one the computer science challenge that obviously you're focused on your big news here, uh, at the show is Couchbase Capella, Capella, by the way, as the brightest star in the constellation, or I go for those of you space nuts. Well, what are the critical aspects of Capella related to Couchbase's cloud strategy? And what does this announcement mean for your customers, Matt? Yeah, >>We couldn't be more excited about a Capella and I'd like to take a moment to congratulate the teams that have been working so hard at Couchbase to, to get to this moment. Um, also want to thank our customers for all the input, uh, that, that we take very seriously. And in thinking through our innovation, um, is we think about all the things we've talked about up to this point. Those are fundamentally important. And we think about the capability of a database that enterprises need. What we also spend a lot of time thinking about is how do customers consume all of that capability, right? And, and enterprises want freedom of choice on how they consume deploy, run, and manage their database for a lot of our customers, they're very happy leveraging our platform and managing that. And they're very diverse, very customized, specific environments, but there are a lot of customers that want us to take over the management and the operation of the database. >>They want the fastest path to D developer, agility and productivity, uh, and they want the best TCO relative to other databases of service offerings. And that is exactly what we have provided with Couchbase Capella. So customers can now come to us, they're up and running with the best database in the industry. Self-serve easy to use up and going, you know, the, the, the most simple experience and the fastest path to value, but that TCO point is fundamentally important. And what's interesting the way we've architected this, the more you scale with Couchbase Capella, the better the TCO gets. And I think that demonstrates our focus on enterprise, the mission critical nature of, of the applications that we support. Um, but you know, we're, we're really excited about Capella. We think it's going to be a great experience for our existing customers, our new customers, um, along with the announcement of the product today, you've heard some things about some of the packaging and ways in which developers can try out the solution in a really unique and cool way. We're providing other great experiences for developers on technical integrations and ideas from other customers on how to take advantage of the Couchbase platform. So we're thinking pretty holistically about consumption, uh, experience. Uh, and again, the fact that it's built on a kind of the foundation of, of Couchbase server seven oh, and, and our, our core platform with all the advantages that that brings with it. Uh, we're, we're pretty excited about the, uh, the announcement and all that that has for, for the company in front of us. So let's on >>For a minute and I want to double click on the, how you see the uniqueness of Capella. So when I think about Couchbase's heritage, the idea of next-generation not, not only SQL database, the acid properties that you talked about, the scale and the performance required for mission critical workloads and your focus on sequel fluency, these tenants of differentiated Couchbase, is it sort of the same kind of approach for Capella and what specifically differentiates Capella in your mind from the spate of other database databases, a service offerings that are out there in the marketplace? >>Well, look at it. When, when enterprises are thinking about applications, particularly the applications that they're running their business on, I like to say the good enough is not a viable strategy for the database. And what that means is you've got to have high performance, you've got to have scale, you've got to have, you know, distributed, uh, attributes. We believe fundamentally that you need to go cloud to edge. Um, that's going to be paramount and we're going to continue to innovate on our core database. So to take all of that power and then put it in a consumption model, as easy as Capella, I mean, Dave, we now have people being able to get up and running in a matter of minutes and, and they're writing applications, uh, on Capella leveraging the full power and breadth of all the capabilities, uh, in, in Couchbase. And going back to something that we talked about earlier dynamics in, in the industry will enterprise is really need to think about total cost of ownership. >>So how am I innovating and solving some of my most fundamental application challenges, but mindful of, you know, the cost and the return of that over time for us to come out with the highest performing database at the lowest TCO for those applications. I mean that that's pretty radical innovation and, and pretty true differentiation that our enterprise and other customer segments are really looking forward to. And then you layer in the fact that we're doing all of this in the de facto language that everybody in the world, the database speaks, which is cul you know, we like to say, it's easy SQL you get up and running, you're going, we speak your dialect. And we give you all of the benefits of this modern platform that are gonna make your job easier. Uh, you know, I think there's a reason why it's the brightest star in, uh, in, in the hemisphere. >>You know, it's funny, you, you, you, you used to talk about your, your S your SQL prowess. And, and that was that, that was the epiphany to me in the early days of big data. It was like the killer app for big data was SQL. And that changed. Everybody's thinking, let's talk about what's next for Couchbase you're a public company now, what are your priorities? How are you spending your time met? >>Well, look, Dave, we're, we're, uh, we're, we're gonna main remain maniacally focused on ensuring that we continue to innovate and solve the biggest problems, the biggest database challenges for enterprise customers. Um, we believe deeply in architecting differentiation that can be sustained over time. Uh, we've done that up to this point and we're going to remain steadfast in that mission. Uh, at the same time, we are entirely focused on satisfying our customers and, uh, demonstrating that we're a business partner, not just, just a vendor. So, you know, building partnerships, making sure we have the appropriate technical integration, supporting customers on their digital transformation strategies, continuing to invest in those capabilities to support customer journeys and make sure they're successful through that through their transformation. I mean, we're investing across all aspects of the business, across all aspects of the world. Uh, we're going to continue to be extremely proud of not just what we do, but how we do it. >>We are a values based organization. We have an incredible world-class team that we continue to grow on on a daily basis. And I'm going to make sure that we're spending time on each one of those and those things are in harmony. So we can continue to build a very vibrant, uh, company that's going to be around for a long, long time and continue to do great things for our customers. When we think about next generation technology, we are in the early innings of what we believe to be truly a generational market transition and the demands of applications and all things digital and combining, you know, technology that goes truly out to the edge and redefining what the edge is even, uh, and, and really thinking through how a platform needs to go, where the data resides to provide people, the experience and machines, the experiences that they need, uh, to, uh, complete their mission of digital transformation. Uh, there's some really mind-bending stuff that we're thinking through as we get, as we get way out there. Uh, but we're gonna continue to do it through the lens of solving big customer problems, making sure they're successful and then continuing to innovate as we go forward. >>Well, we're really excited to follow you guys report on this. And the database is no longer just kind of a bespoke bucket. It's a fundamental component of, of a digital fabric that's growing and becoming ubiquitous as part of a new data era. So we want to thank everybody for watching this keynote summary with Matt Kane, CEO of Couchbase Matt. We wish you all the best in the years ahead, and we look forward to seeing you in person, hopefully in the near future. >>Thanks a lot. See you soon, Dave. Appreciate >>It. All right. Thank you for watching our coverage at Couchbase connect 2021 modernized. Now keep it right there for more coverage that educates and inspires. You're watching the cube.