Couchbase vs Realm | TrustRadius

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 158 reviews and ratings

Score 8 out of 10

Based on 1 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Couchbase

Realm

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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Tracking attendance
Running reports, both financial and membership-related
Nursery check-in

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Office Administrator

Maple Grove United Methodist ChurchReligious Institutions, 1-10 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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At the time of my departure from employment at Maple Grove UMC, there was no way to run a report with children's names listed on the same row (excel sheet) as parents. This made it difficult when we needed to do a merge letter that includes both parents/guardians and children.
The process to "roll up" grade levels each year was tedious.

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Office Administrator

Maple Grove United Methodist ChurchReligious Institutions, 1-10 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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No score

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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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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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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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Realm 10.0

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Our transition to Realm was fantastic. We had a rep do two days of training with staff. She also provided us with a step-by-step plan for our rollout to the congregation. In addition to the fabulous customer service team, the "help" section of the Realm website is useful--it includes written answers and also video tutorials/webinars. The search function in the help section is built effectively.

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Office Administrator

Maple Grove United Methodist ChurchReligious Institutions, 1-10 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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Before switching to Realm, we used Church Windows. It was outdated and not intuitive. Customer service wasn't great, either--I felt that some of the reps "talked down" to us when we had questions. I hated it. Realm was a significant improvement--updated interface, intuitive, user-friendly. The customer service representatives are friendly, helpful, and able to resolve issues. Drilling down in reports is much easier in Realm because the interface is user-friendly and intuitive. The ability to share reports with coworkers is excellent, too.

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Office Administrator

Maple Grove United Methodist ChurchReligious Institutions, 1-10 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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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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This is not my area (finance), but efficiency increased when we moved from Church Windows to Realm.
Formatted reports are a huge plus--no need to create a merge document for handouts to be in a usable format.

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Office Administrator

Maple Grove United Methodist ChurchReligious Institutions, 1-10 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

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