Couchbase: Blistering performance at scale for enterprises
August 24, 2021
Couchbase: Blistering performance at scale for enterprises
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Couchbase Enterprise Edition
Overall Satisfaction with Couchbase
Couchbase is being used across our entire organization as the primary database for our platform. It addresses the need for sub-millisecond db transactions at hundreds of thousands of high-availability transactions per second[.]
- Couchbase performance is exceptional both for in-memory and persisted transactions.
- Handling of node failures and cluster rebalancing (high availability).
- Enterprise support from Couchbase themselves
- Good documentation
- Streaming of bucket (database) level mutations via their Database Change Protocol (DCP).
- Replication of datasets between native clients and Couchbase buckets
- Handling of simultaneous writes to the same record with performance penalties
- SDK examples are not always clear enough and don't cover enough scenarios.
- Setting up and managing a large, high performance cluster is not easy without significant assistance from Couchbase themselves. There needs to be more tutorials \ documentation for enterprise scenarios.
- Full text search, while not a primary feature, is not sufficiently performant in Couchbase, so Elasticsearch is still needed. Couchbase has a good integration for moving data to Elasticsearch so this is not very painful. It's possible that the performance has improved in the latest version as we have not yet tested it for FTS.
- Poor performance and support for synchronization of web based apps (PWA's etc)
- Massive concurrency enabling an enormous scale for our platform
- Super-fast transactions enabling a real-time experience across multiple clients
Couchbase could outperform it's competition considerably for database reads and writes. Full text searches were still faster in Elasticsearch but this is more of a feature than a base platform requirement for us.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Couchbase Server go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Couchbase Server again?
Yes