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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

    OpenText Magellan

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Magellan Analytics Suite leverages a comprehensive set of data analytics software to identify patterns, relationships and trends through data visualizations and interactive dashboards.N/A
    Pricing
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    Considered Both Products
    Couchbase
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    8.9
    97 Ratings
    4% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    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
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Couchbase and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Couchbase
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (100 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.1
    (3 ratings)
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.3
    (95 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (52 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CouchbaseOpenText Magellan
    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.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    If you do not have a large budget and are a large organization, I would steer clear of Actuate. If you are looking to do very complex washboarding, I would not use them. Your developers have to be very skilled to work with this. Plan to bring in consultants if necessary to help your process. Adhoc reporting is weak. If your pricing is user based and you expand, this could be very expensive.
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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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    OpenText
    • The report outputs can vary across different types such as HTML, PDF, and Excel
    • Their open source offering is very sufficient
    • There are great boards and blogs for developers and engineers to expand and use their features.
    • The people from the company that I've worked with are professional and courteous.
    Incentivized
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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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    OpenText
    • The documentation on all the available features, but most importantly on the scripting side, can be improved
    • The standard look & feel of some basic options, like parameter selection or sorting and filtering, looks dated and can't be customized
    • The server portal needs to provide better tools
    • More integration is needed with other OpenText products
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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
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    I am no longer working for the company that was using Actuate but I believe they would continue to use it because the stitching costs would be to high. It would require a complete rewrite of the reports and the never version of Actuate (BIRT) even required an almost complete report rewrite
    Incentivized
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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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    OpenText
    It is quite intuitive to use. It is fit specifically for doing sentiment, emotion, and intention analysis as well as text classification and text summarization. I would have given 10 if it is fit for the purpose of doing image processing and analysis as well. There is a huge market to analyze video and image data.
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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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    OpenText
    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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    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    It is vastly superior to these in many ways, for complex reporting it is a much more sophisticated solution. Visualizations are very good. Javascript extensibility is very powerful, others don't support this or as well. Pentaho and MS are both OLAP oriented. Pentaho is moving more toward big data, which was not our primary focus. Others are stuck in the Crystal Reports Band metaphor.
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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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    OpenText
    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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    OpenText
    • Actuate can handle 50 to 60 sub reports inside a report very well.
    • Dynamically creating the datasource, chart, graph, reports are the main advantages. We can do any level of drilling, and can create a performance matrix dashboard efficiently.
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    ScreenShots

    OpenText Magellan Screenshots

    Screenshot of A Magellan BI & Reporting dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of Magellan Data Discovery provides a Smart User Interface, designed to equip new users and users seeking a more streamlined set of features for insightsScreenshot of Magellan Data Discovery provides an Advanced User Interface that allows data analytics pros to leverage its breadth of sophisticated capabilities for insightsScreenshot of Magellan Text Mining insights can be displayed within easy-to-use dashboards.Screenshot of Data scientists can create visualizations within the Magellan Notebook and see it dynamically update as they write changes to it.