--- title: CouchDB Reviews meta_title: 'CouchDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 64 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CouchDB works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 64 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # CouchDB Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Document Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-databases) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 ## About CouchDB CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. ## CouchDB Reviews ### 1. Not even close to MongoDB **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mathias F. | Senior Software Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2016 **What do you like best about CouchDB?** Apache has good ideas, most of them are very useful. CouchDB is one of those good ideas, but I wouldn't classify it as useful. It's good to have a company as Apache supporting the tool, I think it has a great future, but we still haven't found it's value. **What do you dislike about CouchDB?** It resolves a non-existent problem. Why would I use CouchDB and not MongoDB or ElasticSearch? It's still not clear to me. I also found the documentation extremely boring and old school and the books I found do not seem interesting. The community is very small, I had trouble finding answers to basic questions I had during the time I was trying it. **Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:** If you find it useful, good for you. I'd prefer MongoDB and ElasticSearch. **What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm always looking for good database tools for various projects and modules. I currently use MySQL, MongoDB, RedShift and ElasticSearch. I considered CouchDB but ended up discarding it since I didn't think it adds anything new. So, my business problems were not solved. ### 2. 5 months, storing 100GB daily uncompressed html files **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh S. | Senior Software Engineer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2015 **What do you like best about CouchDB?** Automatic compression/decompression. Storing files was not too intensive but building views and especially compacting the db to "really remove" old files could barely process as fast as we were storing information **What do you dislike about CouchDB?** Horrible performance. Even in a raid it had serious problems with the cpu and harddrive io cost of storing our files, building views, and deleting old files. We switched to compressing files and building the view ourselves while storing the files in Amazon S3 and all our headaches went away entirely. **Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:** Don't. I wouldn't doubt it can be used effectively but we didn't see that in our usage **What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing massive amounts of retrievable html files ### 3. Did not scale for our needs **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2015 **What do you like best about CouchDB?** Easy to setup and ramp up time is pretty fast. REST interface and accessing documents by via REST service is a clear winner. Storing unstructured data as document and having to write mapreduce routines for querying **What do you dislike about CouchDB?** Did not scale well when our data reached over 100GB. **What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to store user session data for our public facing website. ## CouchDB Discussions - [What language does CouchDB use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-language-does-couchdb-use) - [What is the difference between MongoDB and CouchDB?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-mongodb-and-couchdb) - [What is CouchDB good for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-couchdb-good-for) - [What is the next feature couch db is planning in next release and how will we be beniffited?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29348-what-is-the-next-feature-couch-db-is-planning-in-next-release-and-how-will-we-be-beniffited) - [How I can be a contributor to CouchDB core platform ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/28862-how-i-can-be-a-contributor-to-couchdb-core-platform) - [View CouchDB pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/couchdb/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+15%3A03%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0027f1fc-b11d-4680-834c-fbc5dc8d8aad&secure%5Btoken%5D=dc5107661410d95948281d19ac39031bd01708b190847d7e58f388cee425413b&format=llm_user) ## CouchDB Features **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers - Semantic Search **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication - Backup and Recovery - Real-Time Data **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Performance** - Query Optimization - Ad hoc Query **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems - BI Connectors - Data Connectors **Additional Functionality** - Database Conversion - Monitoring - Activity Dashboard - Data Extraction - Reporting/Analytics - Automatic Backup - Real-Time Monitoring - Audit Management - Data Visualization - Ad hoc Reporting - Compliance Management - Indexing - Search/Filter - Alerts/Notifications - Data Verification - Performance Testing - Data Capture and Transfer - Security Auditing - Access Controls/Permissions - Role-Based Permissions - Data Mapping - Data Retrieval - AI Copilot - Third-Party Integrations - Generative AI - Configuration Management - Audit Trail - For NoSQL Databases - Data Import/Export - Data Migration - Data Synchronization - API - Serverless Accessibility - Multiple Data Sources **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top CouchDB Alternatives - [Couchbase](https://www.g2.com/products/couchbase/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (143 reviews) - [Redis Software](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (132 reviews) - [RethinkDB](https://www.g2.com/products/rethinkdb/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (15 reviews)