Tag: Competitive

MongoDB fails to perform, runs out of gas
MongoDB fails to perform, runs out of gas

Is performance still a problem for MongoDB? Avalon benchmarked Couchbase Server and MongoDB last year, and a lot has changed since then. Couchbase Server 4.0 introduced a SQL-based query language, N1QL. Couchbase Server 4.1 added prepared statements and covering indexes,...

Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
June 24, 2016 | 3 MIN READ
Competitive / mongodb
MongoDB and DataStax, In the Rearview Mirror
MongoDB and DataStax, In the Rearview Mirror

Thumbtack published an excellent blog post today (link). It highlights the preliminary results of performance tests executed with Couchbase Server, MongoDB and DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra). The final results will be included in a benchmark report. Thumbtack consulted with Couchbase,...

Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
February 20, 2015 | 5 MIN READ
Competitive / DataStax / mongodb
DataStax FUD
DataStax FUD

This is not the first time I've addressed FUD (link). However, it is the first time I've addressed FUD directed at Couchbase and that's a great thing. After all, I know what happens next. First they ignore you, then they...

Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014 | 3 MIN READ
Competitive / DataStax
The Database Cage Match: Redux
The Database Cage Match: Redux

Within every market, a leader emerges. In the 90s, the database market was represented by fierce competition between Sybase, Informix and Oracle. Oracle emerged as the leader. It was a well engineered database, a high performance database, and a general...

Doug Laird, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
December 16, 2014 | 3 MIN READ
Competitive
Ruby on Rails and Couchbase-Model for a Social Application!
Ruby
Ruby on Rails and Couchbase-Model for a Social Application!

Learn how to model data with the Couchbase Rails gem Couchbase-Model and how we to Query Views to get specific subsets of data for use in our application.

The Couchbase Team
December 16, 2014 | 16 MIN READ
Competitive / Rails
Topology: The Architecture of Distributed Systems
Topology: The Architecture of Distributed Systems

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge the architecture of a distributed system by its topology. If two distributed systems are equally effective, is the one with the simpler topology the one with the better...

Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 16, 2014 | 4 MIN READ
Architecture / Competitive / Topology