--- 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 & Product Details CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [CouchDB Community](https://www.g2.com/products/couchdb/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 4 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/couchdb/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Couchbase](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Couchbase") Couchbase 4.3/5(151) ](https://www.g2.com/products/couchbase/reviews) [ ![Redis Software](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Redis Software") Redis Software 4.5/5(136) ](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) [ ![RethinkDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "RethinkDB") RethinkDB 4.3/5(15) ](https://www.g2.com/products/rethinkdb/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/couchdb/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 64 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Jayagopal V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jayagopal V.") JV Jayagopal V. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/29/2020 "Optimum solution for highly designed applications" 4/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? Easy to attain solutions at ground level. We analyzed various NoSQL solutions for our project and finalizd CouchDB as Persistancy. That made us the finest solution for our project owned. CouchDB offered to easy integration with web services and connection pools. One important aspect we liked more is its GUI and their capabilities. The awesome GUI gives more enhanced accessbility from beginners to professionals. CouchDB logging system is giving a way to easy the process of error handlings and runtime blockers. It is a handy to figure out production and live issues on products. Another kudos goes to CouchDB documentations. The structured documents give a clear understanding of the idea and solutions CouchDB matters. That helped us to grip the soultion with our implementation. CouchDB's replication handlers play a vital feature of solution. When we approached the soultion with our implementation, we have not faced any hinderance with services. Obvious the CouchDB's querying systems sense a much plain keywords and meaningful. This makes a readable plain complex query to attain different set of models and data feeds. More over CouchDB is a proving solution as an application package and delights developers to stick with their services than inner complexities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? More discussions would like to happen at public forum. Reach more online platforms. Annouce more bounty program in online portals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: Awesome product for highly designed solutions, easy approach Fine product for professionals Well structured and detailed documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Scaling with pool connections. It is really helped us to attain the services at least time on data connections pool than various other NoSQL products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ahamed R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ahamed R.") AR Ahamed R. S Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/7/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Its very much easy to work with NoSQL databases, and CouuchDB worth the work" 3.5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? First of all CouchDB is a NoSQL database, since I am a full stack developer I have worked with SQL and NoSQL databases what make me more comfortable and more easier to manage feeling is always can be get via NoSQL database. thats the best part in CouchDB and couchDB is offline friendly when we compare this with other competitor NoSLQ databases as per my experience and knowledge Google firebase also provide this feature in a different way. but when it comes to deployment we relay on a different server but in CouchDB its not like that we can deploy it in our own server! and last but not least the cost is lower than Firebase and it's a open source project by Apache so even I can be a part of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? What I felt as a drawback or a disadvantage is its basically do not have a built in full stack search and since its a JSON typed single node might be the load is pretty high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: I have went through the recent releases and updated I have got to know that we can even run SQL queries in couchDB and there are some limitations also I would recommend to fill those limitations with more features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Couch DB makes the offline rendering more easier and more convenient, I can store my data in my own server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nishanthan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nishanthan M.") NM Nishanthan M. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/5/2020 "CouchDB :Quick documented database management system" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? Light weight NoSql data store very easy to install and can host on own server. Save data in document based on JSON structures and accessing JSON is programmatically easy to parse and therefore makes it fast to query and view. Additional drivers are no need to work with CouchDB. The Rest API is enough to read data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? It is not widely used or if it is, not a lot of people are admitting to it! This may be a concern if you are looking for people that have CouchDB experience to work on your project. Documentation is always helpful but it took time to understand how indexing and views worked. CouchDB software adapters are limited so mainly have a couch-rest library for rails app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using CouchDB as the main NoSQL information database server for our product, a globally used network testing and security product. CouchDB helps us save and access thousands of documents of crucial information representing the data points and meta data of the product activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Julkar N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Julkar N.") JN Julkar N. Technical Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/28/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Document Based Data Handling in OpenSRP by CouchDB" 5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? CouchDB is one of the best document based data handling platform which is most like me its easy handling mechanism, Map-Reduce implementation, ORM tool Ektorp, Hibernate OMG. Another interesting feature is to manipulate data in browser without using any third party graphical UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? I have faced in difficulties to handle complex queries. It is not so easy to make search api using relational document like full-text search etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: CouchDB has some fantastic features to handle document based data. Now it has also integrated in Hibernate OMG. I have opened a page in facebook and I am the admin of the page. Soon, I will promote the page. Please join in my page https://www.facebook.com/CouchDB/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I have worked in a platform like ODK, OpenSRP etc. to store data from survey report. It was quite impossible to create dynamic table creation from traditional database based on random number of questions/queries. CouchDB was the blessed on me to handle such kind of complex survey based applications. OpenSRP is a open source platform for front-line health worker donated by WHO. This application is widely used in various Governments over world and NGOs. The users of the application are Kenya, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, India, John Hopkins University, Save the Children etc. https://github.com/OpenSRP/opensrp-server-api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sumantra D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sumantra D.") SD Sumantra D. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/4/2020 "CouchDB : Relaxed or Ruffled ? A developer's take on CouchDB" 3.5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? Best for offline usage. Replication. If the availability of data is the main motivation than consistency. Content-based sites where you want to show movies, music, images and their metadata. Where the transaction is not important. The replication happens from higher revision id documents to lower revision Id Documents. A simple and effective way to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? The conflict resolution of documents. Very slow in querying large data sets. Not suitable for payment and analytics operation. The whole replication process stops when there is a single conflict in the document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: Choose if you are looking for availability over the consistency of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Availability of data to users. Whatever the situation technically user should always able to see information onscreen. Availability takes precedence over consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kamran S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kamran S.") KS Kamran S. Team Lead | Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/2/2020 "CouchDB" 4/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? CouchDB is schema-free, support easy replication, have simple API, eventually consistent, and can handle huge amounts of data (big data). The architectural design of CouchDB makes it extremely adaptable when partitioning databases and scaling data onto multiple nodes. CouchDB supports both horizontal partitioning and replication to create an easily managed solution for balancing both read and write loads during a database deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? In-place updates require server-side logic (update handlers). Temporary views on large datasets are very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy replication of a database across multiple server instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") UI Verified User in Insurance Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/13/2020 "yes,couchdb is a nice nosql database which has comes up with user friendly manner" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? in couchdb we can store any kind of data like json ,html ,etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? it is somehow how seems little slow than RDBMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: it is a nice database who feels to use NoSql. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? we can use different kind of data using couchDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad") AT Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/2/2020 "CouchDB was very dependable and straightforward to use." 4.5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? I like that it's built on Erlang system and thus its fault tolerant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? JSON model is a little more complicated to create model for compared to MongoDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? CouchDB provides good sync and real-time capabilities as it can be connected with PouchDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JF Juan F. Ingeniero de sistemas Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/24/2019 "CouchDB is free and open source, a marvel" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? CouchDB is the easiest database manager to install of all the ones I've tried. In addition, maintenance is very easy. On the other hand, it scales the documents very well. It has a replication protocol that is very useful for creating servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? There is not much online documentation about this database manager and the learning curve is usually a bit slow because despite not being a complex software, learning to use the interface requires some time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: CouchDB is solid and the only thing we have invested is time to learn how to use it so that we can exploit all its characteristics. We believe that it is an important technology in our business. I recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? In CouchDB we store information about employees, customers, invoices, support tickets, among other things. This manager keeps all the data organized and allows us to view them in a web page with JSON. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rosa N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rosa N.") RN Rosa N. Data Specialist Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/4/2019 "Easy replication of a database across multiple server instances. " 5/5 What do you like best about CouchDB? Its relatively easy to set up multiple nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CouchDB? CouchDB can only be good for smallish data sets . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CouchDB: An excellent tool to decide which data store is right for you .we are impressed with its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CouchDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Its data store is logically organised into databases inside which are collections and the security model is strong with the ability to secure objects based on users and roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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