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Keith L.

Chief Technology Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2015

"Couchbase and ElasticSearch - dynamic duo"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Couchbase?

As an entry point into NoSQL, Couchbase is great. Setting up a cluster was amazingly easy. I almost felt like I had installed Chrome. The web interface also is quite rich, and easy to use, and it has built in monitoring so you can see how well it is performing. We looked at mongo, but it was more difficult to set up. We also have found Couchbase to be quite fast. It also integrates well with our windows environment and with .Net as well. We had already migrated our apps into a Service Oriented Architecture and Couchbase slide right in. Also the plug-in with ElasticSearch greatly increases the power of Couchbase giving you a premier search index on your data. The community is also quite vibrant and a good source of help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchbase?

Documentation is pretty thin. What is available is well written but not deep enough. Also to determine which design patterns for your data documents to use is missing. They leave you on your own, and it is not clear how to fully leverage the product with your design. N1QL is coming out, but without it to find data in your buckets you have to write code. Also the web front end will not display large documents so I had to write a front end to see a lot of my documents. Also when updating the OS for nodes in my cluster is a pain. The failover process can get hung up with unclean virtual buckets and you have to write code to populate all 1024 v-buckets so that they will balance properly otherwise it will get stuck Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Couchbase:

The product is very simple to setup. But knowing how to structure your data is a real challenge. This challenge exists for all SQL to NoSQL conversions. I strongly suggest using the ElasticSearch plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Search Search Search. With Elasticsearch as our index and Couchbase as a store we now have awesome search capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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