Couchbase vs MySQL | TrustRadius

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 158 reviews and ratings

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 810 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Couchbase

MySQL

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Pros

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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MySQL is first off free to use, so that makes it a win right there.
MySQL is constantly updated and security holes are patched quickly and often.
MySQL is highly customizable and allows you access to all areas of the database to use it the way you want, plus there is lots of documentation online and other users sharing their customization experiences to help you along the way.

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Digital Services Manager

Packaging & Distribution ResourcesEducation Management, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Design Company, 51-200 employees

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Complex queries usually require many resources to obtain results. Other software does not present this situation.
MySQL has stopped its evolutionary process since its change of ownership, so the changes it presents have become irrelevant to the operation of the service.
Oracle has avoided releasing the code for the detection and correction of errors so the essence of open source has been disappearing

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Carlos Alberto Pedron Espinett

Especialista de Desarrollo

ARCA International GroupBanking, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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MySQL 9.8

Based on 4 answers

It is best open source relational database.

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Senior Data Scientist

CARD.comFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

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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MySQL 8.2

Based on 5 answers

I give MySQL a 9/10 overall because I really like it but I feel like there are a lot of tech people who would hate it if I gave it a 10/10. I've never had any problems with it or reached any of its limitations but I know a few people who have so I can't give it a 10/10 based on those complaints.

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Senior Systems Analyst

CymSTAR, LLCDefense & Space, 201-500 employees

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Performance

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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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

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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MySQL 8.6

Based on 2 answers

The support staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and efficient. I only had to get part way through my explanations before they had a solution. They will walk you through a fix or actually connect in and fix the problem for you--or would if you can allow it. I've done it both ways with them. They are always forthcoming with 'how to do this if it happens again' information. I love working with MySQL support.

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Senior Systems Analyst

CymSTAR, LLCDefense & Space, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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We actually use Sisense alongside MySQL as they integrate very well with one another. One of MySQL's flaws is its slow speeds on larger datasets which is why we began using Sisense. This way, we can organize several feeds into one source without having to do repetitious work on different sources.

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Joseph R. Sweeney

Senior Analyst

The TJX Companies, Inc.Information Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scalability

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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No score

No answers yet

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Return on Investment

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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MySQL has been a vital cost reducing technology for smaller databases that do not require commercial support.
We have successfully sold the enterprise edition to customers who wanted to beef up the capabilities of MySQL compared to the community edition without rewriting an application to use a fully commercial database such as DB2, Oracle or SQL Server
MySQL has been extremely cost effective where we have deployed it. When compared to Oracle or MySQL, the savings has been substantial.

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Christopher Weiss

Chief Architect

DewpointInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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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

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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MySQL

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