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Couchbase vs Firebird

Couchbase
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158 Ratings
Firebird
9 Ratings

Couchbase

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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 158 reviews and ratings

Firebird

9 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 100

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Likelihood to Recommend

Couchbase

It is well suited to hold our player data and give us ease of access to it. Most of our multiplayer features in our titles leverage querying couchbase for the relevant player data. The resiliency of couchbase also gives us peace of mind with having a up to date replica and backups. I am not entirely sure were couchbase would not be appropriate in my experience

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Firebird

It is well enough suited for embedding it into an application and the embedded Version can as far as I know nowadays even support multiple simultaneous users. It will also perform well on a standalone server with higher data volumes, if the SQL is properly written. Quite a few 3rd Party Management Tools with SQL query capability, DB design features etc. do exist so it is not only suited for command line purists!

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Feature Rating Comparison

NoSQL Databases

Couchbase
8.3
Firebird
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Performance
Couchbase
8.4
Firebird
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Availability
Couchbase
8.9
Firebird
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Concurrency
Couchbase
8.3
Firebird
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Security
Couchbase
7.6
Firebird
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Scalability
Couchbase
8.6
Firebird
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Data model flexibility
Couchbase
7.5
Firebird
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Deployment model flexibility
Couchbase
8.7
Firebird
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Pros

Couchbase

  • 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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

  • In a test back when I started to use it it beat MySQL Hands down on some easy speed test.
  • While the included backup functionality of MySQL failed back then (don't remember the details) the one from Firebird did work out of the box and Delphi meanwhile even has easy to use components to use this from a program written in it.

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Cons

Couchbase

  • 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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

  • It stores the user accounts in a central database and not in the database the self written application uses.
  • Theres no embedded version for Android as far as I know.

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Likelihood to Renew

Couchbase

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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Jordan Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

No score
No answers yet
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Usability

Couchbase

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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

No score
No answers yet
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Performance

Couchbase

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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Firebird

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

Couchbase

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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

No score
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Alternatives Considered

Couchbase

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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

Back then I evaluated Oracle 8, IBM DB2, Mimer, SAP DB, MySQL, Borland Interbase (not Embarcadero Interbase and that one has the same roots as Firebird) and most likely other RDBMS. Firebird was free, usage was ok, it was (for my application) maintenance free and Speed was ok for me. And it didn't trash my system! Getting Oracle installed is quite some task in comparison!

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Scalability

Couchbase

Couchbase 8.4
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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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Firebird

No score
No answers yet
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Return on Investment

Couchbase

  • 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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Kok Sang | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Firebird

  • Can't really say that, as my application is most of the times given away for free. But if the RDBMS would cost money, giving my app away for free wouldn't have been done I guess.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

Couchbase

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Firebird

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Couchbase
8.3
Firebird
8.0

Likelihood to Renew

Couchbase
2.1
Firebird
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Usability

Couchbase
8.0
Firebird
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Performance

Couchbase
8.8
Firebird
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Support Rating

Couchbase
7.5
Firebird
—

Scalability

Couchbase
8.4
Firebird
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