IBM Cloudant vs Couchbase | TrustRadius

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Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 104 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 158 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

IBM Cloudant

Couchbase

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Pros

For us, performance and scalability is the key, and Cloudant DB backed by CouchDB is scalable and performant.
IBM Cloudant dB is very easy to provision for sandbox, development, QA as well as production.
Support for Java for CouchDB app server analytics enables a greater control for over developers.
Schema free oriented very easy to program and build applications on it.
We love it!!

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Naresh Jasotani

Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales)

Miracle Software Systems, IncComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Key/value data store. Couchbase is blazing fast at data access and retrieval when you know what keys you want to access.
Data querying with N1QL. If you have your indexes set up right, searching your unstructured data can be really fast too.
Management dashboard. The Couchbase platform has a great admin panel that provides tons of insights into how your cluster is performing.

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Ryan J. Thompson

Director of Software Engineering

KordataComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

It was only after we went with the cloud-based solution that IBM rolled out an on-premise version.
We found that a 3rd-party ODBC driver was required for a few applications that needed to pull data out of Cloudant.
The sales process was difficult because the salesperson we used was not as versed on Cloudant as I had hoped.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Should allow servers to change their roles on the fly - currently you will need to take down the server and re-assign roles
SDK documentation is not as helpful and should have more examples
No pre-compiled procedures - unlike in SQL Server, Couchbase does not have pre-compiled stored procedures therefore we have to run various test to optimize our application

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Engineer in Research & Development

Design Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

IBM Cloudant 7.3

Based on 1 answer

the flexibility of NoSQL allow us to modify and upgrade our apps very fast and in a convenient way. Having the solution hosted by IBM is also giving us the chance to focus on features and the improvement of our apps. It's one thing less to be worried about

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victor pease solano

General Manager

SupermioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Couchbase 2.1

Based on 3 answers

I rarely actually use Couchbase Server, I just stay up-to-date with the features that it provides. However, when the need arises for a NoSQL datastore, then I will strongly consider it as an option

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Staff Consultant

Avalon Consulting, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

IBM Cloudant 7.7

Based on 5 answers

It's mostly just a straight forward API to a data store. I knock one off for the full text search thing, but I don't need it much anyways. Also, the dashboard UI they give is pretty nice to use. It provides syntax-highlighting for writing views and queries are easy to test. I wish other DBs had a UI like this.

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Developer

Qubit NetworksTelecommunications, 11-50 employees

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Couchbase 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Couchbase has been quite a usable for our implementation. We had similar experience with our previous "trial" implementation, however it was short lived.

Couchbase has so far exceeded expectation. Our implementation team is more confident than ever before.

When we are Live for more than 6 months, I'm hoping to enhance this rating.

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Chethan Chandra

Datacenter Capacity Planner

SAP Labs IndiaInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

IBM Cloudant 8.2

Based on 2 answers

it is a highly available solution in the IBM cloud portfolio and hence we have never had any issues with the data base being available - we also do continuous replication to be on the safer side just in case some thing goes awry. We also perform twice a year disaster recovery tests.

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Shiv Shivakumar

customer service leader

ifoxComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Performance

IBM Cloudant 8.2

Based on 2 answers

very easy to get started and is very developer friendly given that it uses couchDB analytics. It is a cloud based solution and hence there is no hardware investment in a server and staging the server to get started and the associated delays/bureaucracy involved to get started. Good documentation is also available.

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Shiv Shivakumar

customer service leader

ifoxComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Couchbase 8.8

Based on 71 answers

Couchbase's performance has been excellent in our experience. In one particular case, the use of Couchbase instead of RDBMS improved page load speeds by an order of magnitude. The fact that adding more nodes scales both the read and write performance automatically and transparently has been particularly advantageous for our OLTP use cases.

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Systems Architect

CenterEdge SoftwareComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

IBM Cloudant 8.6

Based on 6 answers

Very happy by the commitment given by the team which has been really good over the last 7 years of usage.

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Nicolas Peeters

VP of Engineering

AirFi / MI AirlineInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Couchbase 7.5

Based on 2 answers

I haven't had many opportunities to request support, I will look forward to better the rating. We have technical development and integration team who reach out directly to TAM at Couchbase.

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Chethan Chandra

Datacenter Capacity Planner

SAP Labs IndiaInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

IBM Cloudant 7.3

Based on 1 answer

online resources are good enough to understand but there is nothing like testing. In our case, we discovered some not documented behavior that we take in count now. Also, the experience in NodeJs is critical. Also, take in count that most of the "good practices" with cloudant are not in online courses but in blogs and pages from independent developers

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victor pease solano

General Manager

SupermioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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No answers yet

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Implementation Rating

IBM Cloudant 8.2

Based on 8 answers

Test the architecture on CouchDB helped us to address initial design flaws.
The migration to Cloudant as such was very painless.
We have migrate our replication system to Cloudant Android Sync for mobile devices.
We have regular informal contact with the Cloudant leadership to discuss our use cases and implementation strategies.

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Nicolas Peeters

VP of Engineering

AirFi / MI AirlineInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

It's easier to use than Dynamo, more open than Firebase, and has better documentation that CouchDB... it might not be fair to compare Modulus, Modulus obviously suffers from some scalability issues and might not be in the same class... but its a hosted DB service we had some experience with in the past....

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CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

YukonBabyHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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I'm not qualified enough to make a meaningful comparison, but 2 years after, I hear regularly about issues on Mongo from the other teams, especially on the SRE side. On our side, not much to say, except that it works. Ram, CPU, disk behave like expected. Same for bandwidth. Response time stays low. Not much to add.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Retail Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Scalability

IBM Cloudant 8.6

Based on 21 answers

As a DB-as-a-Service, Cloudant has freed us from this kind of problem. Using the IBM Bluemix dashboard you can control how many transaction are executed in milliseconds and this is for now our rating of scalability between 200-24 milliseconds for one http POST (insert document), well under the project rate that was defined by an order of magnitude.

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Owner

NEWLOG Consulting SrlComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Couchbase 8.4

Based on 53 answers

The system is multidimensional scalable. We can enable a specific service (DATA, INDEX, QUERY, ...) on specific nodes inside a cluster.The only limit, for now, is the Map/Reduce view service that is combined with the DATA service. It is then not possible to scale it independently from DATA nodes.

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Verified User

Manager in Engineering

Automotive Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Saving in-terms of cost of procuring and maintaining hardware, which will be realized over the next 5 years.
Positive ROI in terms of the number of FTEs involved in maintaining our databases; our DBAs can now focus on other important and business critical applications.
Best ROI in terms of our organization's vision - they are no longer anxious / nervous to move to the cloud. We are already on the CLOUD.

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Naresh Jasotani

Director - Data and Analytics Services (Presales)

Miracle Software Systems, IncComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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We can implement the mobile app using community release.
The peer to peer syncing technology saves our development time.
The CRUD process will be stopped when index and view are growing rapidly, we have to delete index files and reindex again.

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.NET Development Manager

OgilvyComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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