CouchDB Pros and Cons

Master to master replication

Automatic resharding

Scalability in general

Couchbase admin.

Read speed.

Simple to use and administrate.

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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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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.