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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Couchbase

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACouchbase is a distributed NoSQL database platform that combines a JSON document store with a high-performance In-Memory architecture. The solution is designed to support high-throughput applications by integrating multiple data services—including Key-Value, Full-Text Search (FTS), Vector Search, and Real-Time Analytics—within a single unified platform.N/A

    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

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    CouchbaseGoogle App Engine
    Editions & Modules
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    Starting Price
    $0.05
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    $0.30
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CouchbaseGoogle App Engine
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CouchbaseGoogle App Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Couchbase
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    CouchbaseGoogle App Engine
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Couchbase and Google App Engine
    Feature
    Couchbase
    8.9
    97 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Performance8.997 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability9.496 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency8.994 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security9.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.495 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility9.095 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility8.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Couchbase and Google App Engine
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings9.032 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings10.031 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CouchbaseGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (100 ratings)
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.3
    (95 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (52 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    CouchbaseGoogle App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Couchbase
    Best suited when edge devices have interrupted internet connection. And Couchbase provides reliable data transfer. If used for attachment Couchbase has a very poor offering. A hard limit of 20 MB is not okay. They have the best conflict resolution but not so great query language on Couchbase lite.
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    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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    Pros
    Couchbase
    • Couchbase performance is exceptional both for in-memory and persisted transactions.
    • Handling of node failures and cluster rebalancing (high availability).
    • Enterprise support from Couchbase themselves
    • Good documentation
    • Streaming of bucket (database) level mutations via their Database Change Protocol (DCP).
    • Replication of datasets between native clients and Couchbase buckets
    • Handling of simultaneous writes to the same record with performance penalties
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    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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    Cons
    Couchbase
    • The N1QL engine performs poorly compared to SQL engines due to the number of interactions needed, so if your use case involves the need for a lot of SQL-like query activity as opposed to the direct fetch of data in the form of a key/value map you may want to consider a RDBMS that has support for json data types so that you can more easily mix the use of relational and non-relational approaches to data access.
    • You have to be careful when using multiple capabilities (e.g. transactions with Sync Gateway) as you will typically run into problems where one technology may not operate correctly in combination with another.
    • There are quality problems with some newly released features, so be careful with being an early adopter unless you really need the capability. We somewhat desperately adopted the use of transactions, but went through multiple bughunt cycles with Couchbase working the kinks out.
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    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Couchbase
    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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    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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    Usability
    Couchbase
    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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    Google
    I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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    Performance
    Couchbase
    One of Couchbase’s greatest assets is its performance with large datasets. Properly set up with well-sized clusters, it is also highly reliable and scalable. User management could be better though, and security often feels like an afterthought. Couchbase has improved tremendously since we started using it, so I am sure that these issues will be ironed out.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Couchbase
    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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    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Couchbase
    The Apache Cassandra was one type of product used in our company for a couple of use-cases. The Aerospike is something we [analyzed] not so long time ago as an interesting alternative, due to its performance characteristics. The Oracle Coherence was and is still being used for [the] distributed caching use-case, but it will be replaced eventually by Couchbase. Though each of these products [has] its own strengths and weaknesses, we prefer sticking to Couchbase because of [the] experience we have with this product and because it is cost-effective for our organization.
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    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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    Scalability
    Couchbase
    So far, the way that we mange and upgrade our clusters has be very smooth. It works like a dream when we use it in concert with AWS and their EC2 machines. Having access to powerful instances along side the Couchbase interface is amazing and allows us to do rebalances or maintenance without a worry
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Couchbase
    • Great performance.
    • Leading Couchbase Lite capabilities for mobile use.
    • Developers' learning curve with replica reads and multi cluster can be long. Needs guidance and nurturing.
    • Cluster maintenance during OS patching, etc. has multiple ways to approach. Operational teams may need some guidance.
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    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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