Item: Couchbase Server
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

R&D Department. Used for both Caching and storing of JSON type documents.

Pros and Cons

Speed
Rebalancing
Ease of Maintenance

N1QL performance
N1QL consistency
Lack of more bucket level authentication
Encryption at Rest

Return on Investment

Faster rendering of UI by shifting from SQL server to Couchbase.
Negative impact is when using N1QL.

Scalability

It is very easy to add nodes and rebalance Couchbase clusters. Amazing availability. Zero downtime.

Performance

It is good overall, however, sometimes, we see some BlockingException while retrieving or upserting records.

Alternatives Considered

Riak, MongoDB and Amazon DynamoDB

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited: When you know the key in advance to query, and if the document size is not huge, it is great.
Not well: Whenever you need to do N1QL based on indexes on the values.

Neat NOSQL datastore overall. Will definitely recommend

Overall Satisfaction with Couchbase