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Eddie A.

Associate Staff Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/21/2015

"We developed our first version of our product PocketLabs with it. We used CouchBase with is a fork."

3.5/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

Master to master replication

Automatic resharding

Scalability in general

Couchbase admin.

Read speed.

Simple to use and administrate.

Multi version concurrency control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

Eventual consistency, Limits the type of projects you can use it for. Great for mostly read apps. I would not use it for apps that require frequent updates.

Limited querying capabilities. Not multi key.

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Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:

The problem I see in general is with the word no-sql.

CouchDb is no-sql but so is redis and mongoDb and they are very different.

No-sql offers specific solutions for specific problems. This is different from the SQL world where you solve everything with SQL. People that live with sql typically install their database even before they receive specs.

That being said CouchDB is designed to serve information with speed and redundancy in a scenario where you are mostly reading data. You will also have a limited freedom regarding querying (even if you script). It would be a fantastic DB for a catalog but be wary if you need need heavy updates as it takes some time for data to propagate, or if you need to run reports that have not yet been defined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its fast and simple to develop. Great for startups and prototypes.

You can use it as a very large cache.

You can use it as a versioning system for documents.

By design its awesome for syncing data between apps.

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DS

David S.

Senior .NET Developer

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/9/2015

"Overall a pretty savvy DBMS"

4/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

What I liked best about starting off using couchdb was replication. This fits well with a client server application that needs to sync to the cloud. Also, I liked the restful API that is available and the out of the box authenticat ion is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

I dislike having to create views and remember the specific key value pair that the view provides. Also, it would be great to support some type of tradional join as you get in a sql db. My code is more verbose bc of this and I'm not able to do the heavy lifting server side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:

Do not use couch if using very relational data as your business logic will become a nightmare and unmaintainable. You might be able to understand Mongo better if coming from the RDBMS world, but overall there is great support for this dbms (i.e. documentation is excellent and administrative tools are pretty good) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As mentioned, I am benefiting from client-server replication and user authentication. Also, I wanted an abstraction layer between my db and my application and I get that with the restful api. Bc of the restful api, I was able to pick it up quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Shawn P.

Co-founder

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/21/2015

"User and admin of CouchDB and BigCouch"

4/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

CouchDB views are very fast and the REST interface is simple and easy to integrate with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

View corruption is a real problem with larger views and rebuilding them can take significant time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:

I recommend CouchDB for smaller datasets. We tried using it with our server monitoring results but view corruption made it impossible to maintain. You're also likely to run out of disk space since large data sets are stored on-disk very inefficiently. For smaller data, it's an excellent choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Schema-less data retention and fast pre-built views are what drew us to CouchDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Harshith K.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/23/2015

"CouchDB for analytics on a large distributed video streaming service"

5/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

CouchDB is a great document NoSQL datastore with excellent data aggregation capabilities. I have used it for append-only data (analytics) on a distributed video streaming service hosted on the cloud. It is very simple yet powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

Like any other document based datastore, it does not work well with relational data. It is best used for data that is loosely coupled and works well with append-only data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:

Play around with the aggregations and the distributed nature. This is extremely useful and can lead to some creative solutions to a lot of problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used CouchDB to simplify analytics collection and aggregation for a video streaming service. It enabled on-demand availability of analytics data instead of the previous batch processed aggregation implemented on a relational database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/15/2016

" Couch!"

5/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

I love what couch offers like every other SoSQL DB out there; schemaless data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

They could make a better security solution out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JB

Joe B.

Software Consultant

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/23/2015

"Database Administrator"

5/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

I like how easy it was to setup in a Windows environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

Not a huge fan of the front end tool Futon. It was hard editing documents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Josh S.

Senior Software Engineer

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/21/2015

"5 months, storing 100GB daily uncompressed html files"

0.5/5

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IC

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/3/2015

"CouchDB, nice to work with, hard to run."

4/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

The API is pleasant, the internal tooling (futon) helps to prototype things. There is a good amount of clients for almost any programming language. Most parts of operating it are also nice (e.g. things like creating backups). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

Under a sustained write load, the compaction of the copy on write approach couldn't catch up anymore.

Especially on Amazon EBS I had problems initially where the system never finished compacting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CouchDB:

Make sure you are ok with the limited query ability and do a load test beforehand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A datastore with low operational overhead (single server if possible) that can be used and maintained by a single developer. Something with easy introspection and a source for a more query oriented system (solr, elasticsearch) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CC

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/27/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"CouchDB Usage Review @ Prominent Category Specific Search Company"

2/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

Easy to get started with and the HTTP API was solid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UM

Verified User in Market Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/14/2015

"Relax and the rest is taken care!!!!"

3.5/5

What do you like best about CouchDB?

It is a Document store with built in Map reduce. Store json documents whicthout worrying about the schema or type of the columns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CouchDB?

Scalability is a big factor which worries. The next thing would be stability and ease of querying without using any other search platform on top of couchDb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.