TrustRadius Insights for Couchbase Server are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Scalability: Couchbase is highly scalable, allowing users to handle large amounts of data and serve numerous transactions simultaneously. Reviewers have praised the ability to scale the database based on performance requests and the ease of expanding the cluster size.
Performance: Users appreciate Couchbase's strong performance, specifically highlighting its memory caching as a significant advantage over other NoSQL databases they evaluated. This indicates that Couchbase is efficient and fast in processing and retrieving data.
Flexibility: The schema-less architecture of Couchbase provides flexibility for users. They value the ability to support system points backwardly and make changes easily. It demonstrates that Couchbase can adapt to changes in the database structure effectively.
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Couchbase Server Reviews
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It was initially a cache (caching data aggregated from multiple sources, with various response time and rate limiters), but as usage grew, confidence grew also, we started also using it a database with NoSQL, to query multiple documents based upon more and more complex queries, to fit our needs.
Pros
Key value access is super fast.
NoSQL is particularly useful when you have a SQL background.
.Net client works like a charm and is well maintained.
Cons
With NoSQL, you kind of have a vendor locked in.
When something goes wrong, rarely, it's sometimes hard to find the culprit using the statistics.
We feel we are missing some features by using the community edition, but we survive.
Likelihood to Recommend
Couchbase is well suited to a fast distributed Key Value store with a light need of SQL-like language for access. Below 5 minutes response time is usual for KV access, nearly impossible for SQL/HTTP call in our systems. It saves us.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
It is mostly used by e-commerce development across several different development teams.
Pros
Shopping cart checkout
Concurrent writes
Metadata repo
Cons
Backup processes without data loss.
Reduce costs to align with competitors.
Free training for new support teams instead of cost-based.
Likelihood to Recommend
Obviously, it's not well suited for anything transactional. It's also not greatly suited for upgrades or patches without turning off auto-failover. It is well suited for metadata databases and front end fast data retrieval. It is relatively easy to deploy without training but not intuitive enough to set it up with best practices without pretty good working knowledge of the DB and all its settings and terminology.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Couchbase is the noSQL solution we use. It's used for various applications from websites, mobile apps to caching. It's primarily used to support legacy DB technologies and website caching.
Pros
Reliability: rarely goes down.
Supporting legacy DB applications: Putting Couch in front of slow running applications seems to be a good fit.
Cons
SDK: Documentation could be better. Questionable decision making in terms of how things work.
Speed: It's being used for our caching solution, however, nobody probably should do this. Far better platforms that handle caching better.
Community: Can be frustrating trying to solve problems seems the community and gender issues vary depending on the version.
Tuning/troubleshooting tools: Improvement should happen in this area.
Adoption: Small compared to other noSQL solutions.
Likelihood to Recommend
I don't see much, if any, advantages Couchbase has compared to Mongo. The N1QL query language is nice but probably not an overwhelming reason to chose Couchbase.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
