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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/10/2023

"Dynam data storage with flexibility"

4/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

Its local useability for development and similar integration on deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

For earlier users of database they find it hard to search the data and understand the new concept. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Harsimran S.

Design, Implementations and Deployments

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/20/2022

"Still short of things which should ideally be part of such a product."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

Their trial version is quite elaborate

fairly dev friendly

it has lite DB in it -- with no sql

Cloud native

fast and responsive syncing of data

usage of different channels of data

security roles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

Dashboard improvements are a must IMO

query building takes time to get used to

UI is pretty basic

Data loading should be faster

lesser inituitveness in terms of end to end view of how end user experience from sample apps

CDN integration

Full fledged analytics can't really be run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Varshini S.

Database Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/24/2022

"VPC Peering offered by Couchbase Capella improves security & latency of our customer applications"

4/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

Whenever we carry deployments using Couchbase Capella into our cloud platform over our organization's network, we are able to obtain substantial control through its Data Plane. The Data Plane also accepts all the control plane IP addresses which we define for maintaining and monitoring our instances. We can configure all allowed IP addresses either as a single address or as a CIDR block as per our cluster requirements. Also, its infrastructure is enforced further using RBAC implementation which is convenient to safeguard our database systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

The learning curve is a little steep while working with its advanced query tuning features. Cost expenditures could be high if we don't utilize its resources properly. We define TTL parameters carefully in order to save cost & resource optimization. Apart from these, Couchbase Capella is suitable to manage our database applications for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Couchbase Capella ensures high data availability for our customer applications which are deployed in different geographic regions. It provides plenty of features for major requirements for hosting, database management, storage provisions and email handling. It follows a centralized log management system for handling our RCA and troubleshooting protocols. Since we enable VPC peering, we needn't require any outbound network access for accessing our VPC applications. We can establish cluster isolation, and define our alert rules & metrics for every individual project that we work on with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Amit P.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/18/2022

"Couchbase with Spring boot"

4/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

Easy to get started. We can query over the DB using N1QL that is very similar to SQL so doesn't need extra knowledge to get started. UI is very clear and easy to understand. Indexing is easy to implement and see all the available indices and while running the queries also we can see which index got picked up. Loved this option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

I was using it with Spring Webflux that is reactive, so while processing data parallely the load on couchbase goes very high and operations start failing. Would love to see some inbuilt support on this to handle traffic properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nico P.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/9/2023

"Easy To Use Open-Source Software"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

I liked the ease of use alot, the NoSQL setup was done very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

Adding authorized users was a bit of a challenge however my team figured it out after some poking around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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AMIT P.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/7/2021

"Easy to use and well documented, issues when dealing with larger data"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

It's pretty fast, indexing and all can be done with just one line and it makes the queries execute 100 times faster. And the best thing I find is the documentation, many times I come across a new usecase and am unable to implement then I look for that in the documentation and find all the answers to all the usecase I had.

Doesn't perform well when data increases, lot of times I get ambiguous timeout exceptions.

Couchbase UI is also very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

Please make it efficient when dealing with large data. By large I mean at least with 50k records it should perform well.

Not dislike but one improvement I would suggest is -

Give a builtin mechanism to handle concurrent updates to a document in db. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Couchbase:

Use it only if you have write - write requirements. Otherwise for fetching data at scale its not that efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am working on a usecase where millions of records will be saved in db and they need to be fetched many times and filter them based on some inner field or a value inside an array. Couchbase gives solution to this in the form of "unnest".

And with proper indexing queries works pretty fast too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kranthi K.

Sr. Java Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/3/2023

"Excellent"

5/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

JSON format is the one I like the most while using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

UI is somewhat nor comfortable to use for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pierre R.

Senior Engineering Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/14/2022

"Blasing fast performance but difficult to operate at scale"

4/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

- KV Lookups Performance

- Support for nested document JSON operations

- Comprehensive Web console with useful metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

- Frequent breaking changes on the SDK

- Server upgrades often lead to downtime as the client needs to reconnect

- .NET is poorly served in general, the documentation should be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ashish M.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/11/2022

"Decent Database for JSON data"

4/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

It is very simple and has no complex configuration. It stores data in different buckets, similar to tables in RDBMS. It provides bucket to bucket sync or cluster level to diff cluster level sync using XDCR, which helps in syncing or moving data. As it saves data in JSON format, it's really easy to structure data in couchbase. It works on the N1ql query and provides suggestions for index too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

I dislike, its response time, we faced lots of issues in reducing the query time, even though we have created all the necessary indexes, still, the response time was high. Another thing where we faced an issue was in eventing functionality, as the proper log is not displayed on UI, it's difficult to understand for which document the eventing worked or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchbase solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have built a consumer app, where users create documents, which we save in couchbase DB, and further, read it back when requires. It helped us in creating the app quickly, as it is very easy to start working on couchbase. They also provide a cloud version of couchbase, which is easy to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/24/2022

"Pretty stable with a nice WUI"

4/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

Horizontal scalability. Good support. N1QL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

Subscription Cost. Lack of guarantee of backward compatibility. Lack of enough documentation to troubleshoot, especially reading logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.