--- 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. Small quick projects only **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about CouchDB?** shared capabilities, sync filter is amazing. map reduce indexing easy deployment, ready setup for windows, Mac -- this what i use.. fuxton replication task make life easy to transfer data from server to another. pouchdb integration for offline web users.. Contributors are very collaborative in discussions to give you the best solution IF EXIST and work around if not. Really there is many others lovely feature.. **What do you dislike about CouchDB?** -performance is disaster. they cant or to be accurate its an open source and these people don't get paid for there work,, i saw tens or issues with feature request asking for collections to sort there data or enhancement for Indexing; that a New index consume hours to be build maybe days for big data, no strait solutions for Indexing problem all are inefficient work arounds which is not suitable in real world.. and this dive the product far away from nosql flexibility... why a developer will switch for a product will help me in some scenario and kill my app on other standard one's. -security is the worst, we are living in hackable world and we cant set any read security permissions.. so if we set another layer to do so, this will drop the sync feature, then we don't need couchDB for anything expect its noSQL db.. -update function doesn't allow to to interact with other doc. -no transaction. - documentation need enhancement for quick learning.. its took me a while to mention that they have view index and map reduce index.. and also there is a big question mark for the future of this product!! there is no road map. **Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:** really only recommended for small web app that doesn't require high level of security, **What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** building a quick portal with pouchdb... to enable offline and real time sync... ### 2. Development Stagnation **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about CouchDB?** CouchDB is well-designed for one purpose, and one purpose only: mobile sync. It does this job fairly well, given other tools like PouchDB which can be used to sync across the two. **What do you dislike about CouchDB?** CouchDB is lacking in other features when compared to alternative document databases like MongoDB. No document-based security options, no backend tools or connectors, no builtin support for other platforms. Moreover, there is substantially less documentation when compared to other platforms. Also: performance-wise, CouchDB does not compare to other database engines. **Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:** If you are going to use CouchDB, consider a commercial variant like CouchBase, otherwise MongoDB will be cheaper overall. **What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were looking for a document database to be the data backend for a hybrid web app. The app needed to work offline, so we considered CouchDB (and CouchBase) to do document sync. However, security and performance of MongoDB led us to choose it, as the app has a substantial amount of processing which is required. ### 3. CouchDB Usage Review @ Prominent Category Specific Search Company **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2015 **What do you like best about CouchDB?** Easy to get started with and the HTTP API was solid. **What do you dislike about CouchDB?** Re-indexing every time we wanted to make a change on the data we needed to view. Best practices on scaling was not available at the time as well. Also, security concerns didn't seem to be a priority on the version we worked with. **Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:** Give it a try and do it in a scenario that is very close to what you really plan on using it for. **What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed something to store documents instead of just relational data. It was going to be used for a dynamic CMS built to integrate with an existing product. ## 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=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+11%3A40%3A36+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=34b4508e-a6d8-4517-bcbc-a0f650683b74&secure%5Btoken%5D=7fa8d1da04687db56a3d3e9cb3d05b4046e53b76a364be94719c31c29cdb2508&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)