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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 158 reviews and ratings

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Based on 10 reviews and ratings

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Couchbase

SingleStore (formerly MemSQL)

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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High data volume processing.
Operational data enablement.

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Bernard Bardawil

Head of software development

areebaFinancial Services, 51-200 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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GUI needs to be better.
To scale out on the fly needs to be a little simpler.

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Engineer in Engineering

Biotechnology Company, 11-50 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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SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) 5.0

Based on 1 answer

I still want to see the performance about using latest version of spark and memsql. About renewal, if there is a new and better version of spark-memsql connector, then maybe.

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Data Scientist & BioScience Project Manager

Fed Centric TechnologiesBiotechnology, 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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SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) 8.6

Based on 2 answers

SingleStore DB (formerly MemSQL) covers a wide spectrum of use-cases and provides ANSI-SQL support, MySQL drop-in replacement.It supports several deployment options--cloud, Helios, on-premise bare-metal or virtualized. Has drivers for many programming languages like Java and Python, for BI tools like Zoomdata and Tableau.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Government Relations Company, 51-200 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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SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) 7.4

Based on 3 answers

The team is always available, responsive, and quite helpful. It is clear by their answers that the support reps are experts in SingleStore DB (formerly MemSQL). They can deliver proper answers and understand the client's environment. I never had an issue that took them long to figure out. They are also ready to walk us through upgrades and have meetings whenever required.

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Bernard Bardawil

Head of software development

areebaFinancial Services, 51-200 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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VoltDB is more transactional.
Redis just a k-v as is Voldemort.
Elasticsearch security is an issue. Plus more of reads than writes
Aerospike great K-V that is great with writes and reads. But expensive. More expensive than SingleStore DB (formerly MemSQL).
Firebird opensource, but scalability is an issue
SingleStore DB (formerly MemSQL) at least supports ANSI-SQL. Between SingleStore DB (formerly MemSQL) and VoltDB, I would choose VoltDB, based on pricing.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Biotechnology Company, 11-50 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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It offers me solution to solve spark storage problem.
It adds more complexity of my application since multiple tech softwares are involved.
More types of bugs will be encountered when doing streamliner, including hardware connection.

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Data Scientist & BioScience Project Manager

Fed Centric TechnologiesBiotechnology, 11-50 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

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

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