# Couchbase Server

Distributed JSON document database with key-value access, a SQL-like query engine and a built-in web console, made by Couchbase, Inc.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/couchbase/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.couchbase.com
- repository: https://github.com/couchbase/manifest
- docs: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/introduction/intro.html
- pricing: https://www.couchbase.com/pricing/
- x: https://twitter.com/couchbase
- forum: https://forums.couchbase.com
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Couchbase

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Couchbase, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: database
- hosting: unknown
- language: unknown
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: Linux packages

### License

- licenseModel: source-available
- license: various licenses, including Business Source License 1.1 (BSL), Couchbase Community Edition license (free deployment of up to five node clusters)

### Releases

- currentMajor: 8
- latestReleaseDate: unknown

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: unknown
- packagistDownloads: unknown
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.couchbase.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/introduction/intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/couchbase/manifest (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/introduction/intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainerType: https://www.couchbase.com/ (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/introduction/intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://github.com/couchbase/kv_engine/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/introduction/editions.html (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/couchbase/kv_engine/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://www.couchbase.com/pricing/ (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/install/install-intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/install/install-intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/install/install-intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/couchbase/docker (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/install/install-intro.html (read 2026-10-28)
- adminUi: https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/install/install-intro.html (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Couchbase Server is a distributed database for JSON documents. A cluster is built by installing the server on each node and joining the nodes together, and the cluster is administered from a web console that the server provides. Data is reached through a key-value store and a query engine for SQL-like queries, and Capella, a managed service from the same company, runs it as a hosted database.

Couchbase, Inc. maintains the product. Installs exist for Linux, macOS and Windows, and a Docker image is built from a repository the company publishes.

## Worth knowing

The Community Edition license covers free deployment for clusters of up to five nodes, and the Enterprise Edition adds features and is sold on a subscription counted by the nodes used in production. The source repositories state that their code is under various licenses, including the Business Source License 1.1, so a reader should check the license of the release they install rather than assume one.

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