Item: Couchbase Server
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Couchbase is used by couple of departments across the whole organization. It replaced some of the applications' RDBMS backend which helped us save a lot of cost without compromising or in some cases with a better performance, security, clustering and replication factors.

Pros and Cons

Easy to store unstructured data and has great performance
Managing security is super easy which can be managed across different levels
UI is pretty simple to use and manage the cluster
Backup of the data is very easy and the restoration/recovery is fairly easy as well with the in-built tools.
Easy integration with Elasticsearch for replication
It is fairly easy to scale up or scale down the cluster

Resource utilization can be improved. Sometimes we have noticed that Couchbase acts like a resource monster and draining the resources.
If a node has to join back to the cluster sometimes database cluster with moderate size takes a longer time for a delta recovery

Return on Investment

Couchbase clusters can be easily deployed which saves lot of time/money
Performance of the cluster is great even with large number of concurrent users
Performance improvements are fairly straight forward with the right index creations

Performance

Performance of the cluster is great even with large number of concurrent users. Also, performance improvements are fairly straight forward with the right index creations. Fast indexing is not a problem if we can through more resources at the cluster. Scaling up and scaling down the cluster is very easy too. Overall managing the cluster using command-line tool or through UI is easy.

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Apache Cassandra

Easy to deploy and manage. Clustering and replication is fairly simple and straightforward. According to developers, Couchbase scored higher points compared to the other products that we evaluated.

Key Insights

Do you think Couchbase Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Couchbase Server's feature set?

Yes

Did Couchbase Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Couchbase Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Couchbase Server again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

Likelihood to Recommend

Couchbase is well suited in scenarios where cost plays a major role and the performance can't be compromised. It was the best option for us to replace a famous RDBMS because of licensi[ng] cost reason but boy were we happy about the performance or what. It certainly is not or less appropriate in the scenarios where there are resource constraints. You can't run too many Couchbase clusters on a single machine if it's not a beefy machine.

Simple, Cost-Effective and High Performance NoSQL Database Cluster

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Couchbase