An easily scalable document data store
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to scale a Couchbase cluster by adding a new node and rebalancing the cluster.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are at times connection issues or query timeouts which are not so straightforward to resolve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being a document data store, the schema is flexible and it is easy to store different types of data in a couchbase collection.
Very intuitive and great experience
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, and documentation easy to understand
What do you dislike about the product?
Long documentation in order to understand one topic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
host databeses in the cloud
A breeze to work with
What do you like best about the product?
Couchbase work like a charm and integrates easily with my existing tech stack. As an agency i can use it for clients work very fast with less headache
What do you dislike about the product?
I would really enjoy having a subscription plan also
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Usually providers offer either sql or nosql. finding a place with sql capability and document database is very interesting to me
Couchbase is an excellent NoSQL database having the on-premise version as Couchbase server and the cloud version as Capella.
What is our primary use case?
Initially we were using the on-premise Couchbase Server which was maintained by the organisation with assistance from a consultant from Couchbase. After they came up with the cloud version of Couchbase called Capella, it was decided to migrate there to reduce the maintenance cost and to take advantage of the advanced features the product offers.
Couchbase Capella offered distinct advantages like ease of horizontal and vertical autoscaling, ease of querying using the SQL++ language (which is not hard to learn), and the flexibility it offers while being hosted in the cloud and being served by the parent company.
How has it helped my organization?
We moved from a relational database to a non-relational database, where there is no format for storage of data, no linking of different tables, and not too much effort is required in learning the query language. This has made data storage an easier process and querying effort is optimum.
What is most valuable?
Easy querying language.
Easy to increase server capacity as per usage demand.
Easy UI interface.
Data storage is easy and we do not have to navigate different tables for extracting relational data.
Time to extract the data is faster than non-relational databases and hence there are fewer performance issues.
What needs improvement?
Earlier services were designed to be integrated with the non-relational databases and when a different type of database is introduced it is obvious that there will be issues in integrating with the existing infrastructure. Same was encountered when trying to integrate Couchbase and exhaustive testing of the setup was done to check for data integrity.
An area of improvement for Couchbase would be to integrate the 3 parts of the Couchbase server (Server, Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite) into a single unit so the integration with the customer infrastructure becomes easier.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for one year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
For Couchbase server, nodes have to be created or reduced based on requirements, which is a technically complex task.
For Couchbase Capella, there are different combinations CPU and Memory available which can be configured as per requirements and hence it is more flexible.
How are customer service and support?
Couchbase could also improve with their technical support and provide project specific solutions rather than generic.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What other advice do I have?
Couchbase is a good NoSQL server and I would recommend it to users, simply because if the simple way of storing the data (in the form of JSON) as well the easy process to retrieve it.
Customer support is good and they will help you in suggesting mitigation measures for most of the issues being faced by the project.
There is no major knowledge gap while transitioning to a non-relational database, knowledge of SQL querying and JSOn models are sufficient.
Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
Has efficient migration process, but the grouping features need improvement
What is our primary use case?
We manage our telecommunication application using the product.
What is most valuable?
The product's most valuable features are its overall availability and robustness. It is highly available for support and does not impact our operations significantly during failures. It performs very well in terms of speed, particularly for write operations.
What needs improvement?
The platform's grouping features need improvement. Additionally, it supports only a few storage types, which presents challenges, particularly for I/O operations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working on Couchbase for the last two and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have never encountered any stability issues for the product.
How are customer service and support?
Sometimes, the technical support team responds promptly and helps with incidents, but other times, they require multiple logs and take more time to provide root cause analysis.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing cost of Couchbase is quite expensive compared to other databases.
What other advice do I have?
The platform's migration process, including upgrades, is quite easy compared to other databases like PostgreSQL.
I rate a six out of ten.
Couchbase microservices for Amadeus (hotel software company)
What do you like best about the product?
I really liked how simple it is, how easy it can be dockerized and above all the document management that a good infrastructure allows.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much documentation for nodeJS, the orm is poorly documented and there are no very current versions to use it in the most recent versions of nodeJS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
unification of other services in a single document that allows sharing with other subsystems within the app
Couchbase versatility and friendliness
What do you like best about the product?
One of the thing about Couchbase very well is the friendliness and verstality. It was easy to integrate and data access and retrieval times of large volumes of data is quite exceptional. Moreover, It's flexible data model allows me to store and query data in a variety of ways, making it suitable for a wide range of use cases. I can say that the couchbase has significantly improved the performance and scalability of my applications, providing a reliable and efficient database solution. Lastly, I would like to add the customer support was very polite and have sound knowledge, they help me and guide me properly about how to start with Couchbase.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being new to NoSQL, I found a little hard to understand but thanks to technical support team which help me set it up. However I still that you can add more training and setup videos so that the new comer can also understand this with ease.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me, I have solved the problem of data consistency and reliability. as they provide built-in replication and cross-datacenter support,
Nice and smooth experiences
What do you like best about the product?
flexibility in storing json, sql-like query.
and essentially performance
What do you dislike about the product?
the difference between Community edition and Enterprise edition. It will be very good if you decrease Community Edition limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I managed too many authentication request with Couchbase
Couchbase is a versatile and powerful database
What do you like best about the product?
In my experience, Couchbase has been a game-changer. It's user-friendly and super efficient, especially when it comes to storing large amounts of user data like we do for authentication. And the cherry on top? It's fast. Really fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacking connectors for tools like Tableau and with room for UI improvement, its current capabilities are still impressive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Couchbase addresses several key challenges in managing large-scale data environments. Its ability to scale out horizontally with ease enables efficient handling of growing data volumes and increasing workloads.
A good tool for a distributed database
What do you like best about the product?
Couchbase is so resilient and scalable solution. The best part for me is its builtin caching to reduce the latency. Replication across datacenter is also very subtle. I am hoping it to be as competitive as MongoDb is.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would be nice to have additional features in community edition instead of the licensed one. Moreover , cluster configuration and data partitioning is complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its ease of use is advantageous for me. It is beneficial in my learning journey
