{"id":13583,"date":"2022-07-21T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2023-11-10T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:25:23","slug":"couchbase-mongodb-nosql-misconceptions-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-mongodb-nosql-misconceptions-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Couchbase vs MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Misconceptions about NoSQL have been around as long as NoSQL itself. It\u2019s always good to get different perspectives, and so this blog series continues. I\u2019ll be discussing NoSQL misconceptions, specifically when it comes to two of the top document database companies in the world: Couchbase and MongoDB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be sure to check out the previous posts in this series:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-mongodb-nosql-misconceptions-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part 1: What about SQL? Is the learning curve steep?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-mongodb-nosql-misconceptions-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part 2: Is Couchbase just a Key-Value Store? Does Couchbase have Lucene search?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-mongodb-nosql-misconceptions-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part 3: Is NoSQL secure? Will it lose my data? What about ACID?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this post, I\u2019ll again look at some of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210810020126\/https:\/\/www.mongodb.com\/mongodb-vs-couchbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">misconceptions that Mongo has made about Couchbase and NoSQL<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Is Couchbase good for scaling?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Short answer: yes. For a longer answer, let\u2019s start with &#8220;what does scaling mean&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scaling just means that a system is able to handle growth by adding resources. The two types of scaling are horizontal (adding more nodes to a system) and vertical (adding more resources to a single node).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Relational databases often have trouble with horizontal scaling, because data in a relation is tightly coupled to tables, to other data in that table, and to other tables. It is very difficult to split it among multiple nodes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase is designed to scale horizontally (as well as vertically) from the ground up. It is explicitly designed for clustering (COUCH is an acronym, in fact, with the first &#8220;C&#8221; being &#8220;cluster&#8221;).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many NoSQL databases claim to support horizontal scaling, but Couchbase\u2019s architecture takes a different approach than most for at least two key reasons (although, every feature built at Couchbase is designed with scalability in mind).<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/distributed-databases-overview\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.couchbase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/13105-distributed-database-failover.png?w=900\" alt=\"Distributed database high availability\" width=\"900\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blog: Distributed databases overview, replication and failover<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, <\/span><b>Sharding<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (the process of splitting up data among nodes) is completely automatic and built-in to Couchbase. This makes efficient use of all the resources by dividing up the data evenly, meaning that there will be no hot spots on any single node.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, <\/span><b>Replication<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is also built-in to Couchbase. Not only is it built in, it\u2019s built into every node. Every node contains some portion of primary and secondary data. There are no nodes that are &#8220;replica set&#8221; secondary nodes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a refresher, make sure to check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/distributed-databases-overview\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Distributed Databases: An Overview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How Does Couchbase stack up against the competition? Industry standard benchmarks are one way that you can compare the ability to handle larger workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/why-uplevel-from-mongodb\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why Uplevel from MongoDB\u2122<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Rick Jacobs discusses YCSB benchmarks, as well as associated costs of Couchbase Capella compared to the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/why-uplevel-from-mongodb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-13584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-768x432.png\" alt=\"why uplevel from mongodb\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-1320x743.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854-20x11.png 20w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-21_140429854.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In both design and implementation, Couchbase provides scalability to meet your performance needs at an affordable cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Is Couchbase Popular Enough?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s true that Couchbase isn\u2019t the most popular and used database in the world. It doesn\u2019t have the entrenched history of Oracle or the early momentum of Mongo. Despite those obstacles, Couchbase is still in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/db-engines.com\/en\/ranking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">top 10% of databases<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is still work to do, and Couchbase is committed to remaining on top when it comes to features, performance, scalability, and affordability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just ask Scott W. Bradley of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/customers\/facet-digital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facet Digital<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who started out with a &#8220;more popular&#8221; NoSQL database, but switched to Couchbase Capella to reduce costs by 50% and increase performance by 2000%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Couchbase Cloud Saves Facet Digital Time and Money\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihcp84dLUBU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can also see that Couchbase is very popular with its customers, developers, and users. Over 288 customers have been surveyed by the 3rd party review site <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ihcp84dLUBU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TechValidate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, providing case studies and survey results about successful projects using Couchbase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, while the name &#8220;Couchbase&#8221; may not be as popular as other vendors (yet), Couchbase enables use of widely regarded industry standards, properties, guidelines, tools, and frameworks that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> popular: <\/span><b>SQL, JSON, ACID, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Spark, ASP.NET, Spring, Node.js, Elasticsearch, Tableau, Linq, ODBC, JDBC, S3, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/datagrip-setup-couchbase\/\">DataGrip<\/a>, and more<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with more on the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase may not be the default industry choice for a database yet, but it\u2019s the choice that many innovative companies make to help them build mission-critical applications and keep costs down.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What\u2019s Next?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the next (and final) post in this series, let\u2019s take a look at the unique way that Couchbase uses memory. Finally, we\u2019ll look at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/comparing-couchbase-vs-couchdb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">confusion between CouchDB and Couchbase<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Want to discuss further? You are welcome to join the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-on-discord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Discord<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for further conversation, questions, and answers with the Couchbase staff and community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misconceptions about NoSQL have been around as long as NoSQL itself. It\u2019s always good to get different perspectives, and so this blog series continues. 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