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What is CouchDB?

Apache CouchDB is an HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and bi-directional replication. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that span computing environments from globally distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones…

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CouchDB has proven to be a valuable tool in various industries and projects. For instance, it is widely used in the Big Data Insight …
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Chillaxin

9 out of 10
April 19, 2016
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CouchDB was used for data replication across different audiences and when users were in offline mode (no/low internet). It was initially …
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What is CouchDB?

Apache CouchDB is an HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and bi-directional replication. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that span computing environments from globally distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.

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CouchDB has proven to be a valuable tool in various industries and projects. For instance, it is widely used in the Big Data Insight Product Division for development and production environment setups. Its flexibility and scalability make it an attractive alternative to relational databases like MySQL, especially when handling large amounts of unstructured data. In media-oriented companies such as advertising and film, CouchDB is utilized to manage vast quantities of distributed and rapidly changing file sets.

Additionally, CouchDB finds its utility in mobile applications that require offline data storage. The sync capability of the database has been highly beneficial in ensuring seamless data availability even when users are offline. Legacy applications that previously relied on SQL databases have successfully migrated to CouchDB, resulting in improved response times. Another use case involves route planning for sales forces, where CouchDB serves as a central farm for mobile devices, with content partitioned per user.

Moreover, CouchDB plays a crucial role in storing time-series data for test sensor networks, while introducing users to non-SQL concepts and technologies. Its simplicity, ease of setup and configuration, and developer friendliness have made it the go-to NoSQL database server for globally used network testing and security products. Customers value CouchDB for its ability to save and access thousands of crucial documents representing vital information for their activities.

Furthermore, CouchDB is leveraged by Datawhere, a file intelligence platform that helps individuals and businesses find digital assets across platforms, devices, and geographic barriers. By working seamlessly with Logstash and Elasticsearch, CouchDB provides fast and powerful search functionality for customers. It also assists in storing a million SERP pages gathered daily and parsing them to find ads on each page.

Overall, CouchDB's diverse use cases span from social media analytics systems to file management in media-oriented companies, enabling offline data storage in mobile apps, facilitating database migration from SQL systems, supporting route planning for sales forces, storing time-series data for sensor networks, and serving as the main NoSQL information database server for global network testing and security products. Its versatility, reliability, and ease of use position it as a valuable tool in various domains.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Open Source, and freely able to install it on any OS you desire (the big 3, anyways) CouchDB was selected for that, it's early-adoption of JSON and its mobile-friendly environment. Also, I have used it off and on in various non-professional projects, and it was really one of the first exposure to databases in my career
Johanes Siregar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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Compared to MongoDB, CouchDB's Map-Reduce paradigm poses a steeper learning curve for SQL users. However, CouchDB's master-master replication is an advantage of implementing a load-balanced solution.
Even though, currently, CouchDB has strong community support, as an open source software, there is no guarantee and no dedicated support. Compared to both DynamoDB and CosmosDB, backed by big names (Amazon and Microsoft respectively) behind them, they can certainly provide better support that definitely comes with a price.
March 31, 2017

CouchDB for analytics

Sean Lang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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MongoDB and CouchDB are both document stores, but their concurrency models and ability to scale are very different. MongoDB cannot replicate / shard over unreliable links and network partitions have been the cause of data loss in the past. MongoDB has an easier query language that is only beginning to be emulated by the Mango query and index system in CouchDB 2.0. Also, MongoDB tends to have better documentation and its communication protocol is a bit more efficient than HTTP.
Dave Lundberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
It has been 5+ years since we chose CouchDB. We looked an MongoDB, Cassandra, and probably some others. At the end of the day, the performance, power potential, and simplicity of CouchDB made it a simple choice for our needs. No one should use just because we did. As I said early, make sure you understand your problems, and find the right solution.

Some random reading that might be useful:
http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theorem
https://www.couchbase.com/nosql-resources/why-nosql\
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed


March 08, 2017

CouchDB Fanboy

LeVar Berry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We looked at MongoDB and Firebase. MongoDB gives us the best working db engine with a very intuitive design. However, it does not work as well offline. Firebase was extremely hard to create searching and indexing. Using a third-party to search didn't work for us or at least it was too hard for us to figure out. CouchDB was the best of all worlds. Even though it is not great at any one thing ... it is second place in every category which makes it the best all around. We can get to market faster which is the key driver.
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I have briefly used MongoDB in other products, and it proved that it had better integration capabilities with Ruby on Rails and node.js software platforms, more than CouchDB. But I never had the chance to actually replace CouchDB with MongoDB in the current product to see what improvements it could have made. But I expect API libraries support would be better.
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