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Couchbase Enterprise pros and cons

Vendor: Couchbase
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PROS

Couchbase Enterprise offers very fast retrieval of feature configurations and low latency, making it preferable over other NoSQL databases.
Its key advantages include key-value storage speed, multi-master capability, and scalability compared to master-slave databases.
Couchbase Enterprise's built-in caching and ability to process real-time workloads significantly reduce the need for external systems.
Features like Sync Gateway enhance mobile applications, and its online addition and deletion of nodes facilitate XDCR replication.
Couchbase Enterprise improves performance by reducing latency and operational costs, ultimately boosting throughput and user capacity.

CONS

Couchbase Enterprise encounters difficulties when loading backups from older to newer versions.
The SQL database lacks real-time processing capabilities, especially crucial for critical IoT scenarios, requiring additional coding and wasting time.
Initial setup and configuration of Couchbase Enterprise are complex, demanding careful tuning of cluster settings, memory quotas, and indexes.
The failover and failback processes are manual and time-consuming, with node rebalancing taking over an hour.
Integration with systems is challenging, with limited options for data integration and issues with replication and sharding, causing delays and reliability concerns.
 

Couchbase Enterprise Pros review quotes

ChiefEngb11c - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Dec 11, 2018
It is pretty stable.
reviewer1456692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Android Developer at a tech services company with self employed
Nov 18, 2020
The most valuable features are the ease of application and the merging of data.
QS
ETL DeveloperDeveloper at PumaSight
Nov 19, 2020
I have found the views to be very valuable.
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RC
President at YCL
Jul 4, 2021
The valuable features of Couchbase are the many documents and index types, and they made a lot of features available enabling us to use it as a complete solution for our needs.
reviewer1775388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Mar 9, 2022
The principal advantage of Couchbase is that we can have multiple database paradigms in the same product, without deploying multiple databases. We also like that it has lower latency, when compared to its competitor: Cassandra.
Heinrich Venter - PeerSpot reviewer
Backend Developer & Team Lead at Osiris Trading powering Betway
Dec 21, 2022
I can input any kind of document into the solution and it is integrated using a dynamic API. This has been the most valuable aspect of using this solution.
NG
DB2LUW and Couchbase ADMINISTRATOR at HCL Technologies
Dec 26, 2022
Sync Gateway is a great feature that supports the mobile application.
Asad Rizvi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Jan 10, 2023
The main advantages were associated with it being a no SQL database. It helped us send out metrics or rewards to multiple players in our game at a very low latency.
reviewer2072331 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jan 13, 2023
The whole stack is valuable, but the portion of the stack that we're finding really handy is the analytics engine because that allows us to take and pre-build views.
MT
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 23, 2023
The most valuable feature of Couchbase is document indexing. It is better than MongoDB. Additionally, the solution is easy to use.
 

Couchbase Enterprise Cons review quotes

ChiefEngb11c - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Dec 11, 2018
The failover and failback could be a bit easier. When I looked at it last time, it had to be manually done. It also took over an hour for us to rebalance all the nodes.
reviewer1456692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Android Developer at a tech services company with self employed
Nov 18, 2020
I have tried multiple libraries in a demo they provide and it works fine, but when it merges with libraries, it creates a problem.
QS
ETL DeveloperDeveloper at PumaSight
Nov 19, 2020
It is very difficult to load the backup of the older version to the newer version.
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RC
President at YCL
Jul 4, 2021
There are some limitations to the database. The SQL database cannot handle real-time processing for critical IoT scenarios. What we have to do is store our data into the database then code it out, this wastes a lot of time.
reviewer1775388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Mar 9, 2022
We would like to have a better management of Kubernetes with the free, open source version of Couchbase. We don't have any major complaints other than that.
Heinrich Venter - PeerSpot reviewer
Backend Developer & Team Lead at Osiris Trading powering Betway
Dec 21, 2022
The scripting language for this solution could be improved. A big selling point is that they're like SQL server but there is still quite a lot of missing functionality.
NG
DB2LUW and Couchbase ADMINISTRATOR at HCL Technologies
Dec 26, 2022
Needs some capacity planning to deal with too much memory, CPUs and displays.
Asad Rizvi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Jan 10, 2023
One thing that could improved upon is the level of concurrency. The documentation for this solution could also be improved.
reviewer2072331 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jan 13, 2023
It's easy to deploy. Where the challenge comes in is when you start putting data in, doing the indexes, and doing the integration with systems. Integration is one of their weakest points. Natively, there should be a wide range of integration options to be able to get data in.
MT
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 23, 2023
Couchbase could improve the design of the UI because it should be optimized for viewing statistics or a similar feature.