NoSQL cloud database – competitive feature evaluation
You have a variety of NoSQL databases to choose from – and understanding the differences between them is critical when you’re planning to deploy a NoSQL database in the cloud. Use the chart below to compare today’s top NoSQL databases in the cloud. You’ll find out how Couchbase’s award-winning Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), Couchbase Capella™, stacks up against MongoDB™ Atlas and DynamoDB – the other well-known DBaaS document store offerings. You’ll see why there’s no equal to Capella for ease of getting started, multicloud deployment, and price/performance – particularly as your applications’ needs grow.
Comparing NoSQL cloud solutions
NoSQL features
Couchbase’s multi-model capabilities built into a single database platform allow customers to do more with less and save both time and money. Couchbase combines the performance of a caching layer to serve up data faster, a flexible document datastore to make rapid evolution of applications easier, and the durability and reliability you need for a system of record. This eliminates the need to manage independent technologies and data models, providing consistency across applications.
| NoSQL Features | Couchbase Capella | MongoDB Atlas | DynamoDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance at scale |  |  |  |
| Full querying capabilities | | |  |
| Offline capabilities | | | |
| Geo-replication | | | |
| Key-value document database | | | |
| Open interfaces | | | |
| SQL-like querying | | | |
| JOIN support | |  | |
| JSON | | | |
| Multi-model | | | |
| Full-text search | | | |
| Eventing with JavaScript | | | |
Performance
Customers choose Couchbase for our tremendous speed at high scale. Our customers rely on Couchbase for tens of millions of operations per second and response times measured in single-digit microseconds. The Couchbase architecture automatically creates copies of data across multiple nodes to remove the risk of data loss or interruptions. Our mix of high performance and massive scale enables customers to use the Couchbase platform for mission-critical applications they’ve never entrusted to others.
| Performance | Couchbase Capella | MongoDB Atlas | DynamoDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory-first design | | | |
| Analytics-specific service | | | |
| Adaptive indexes | | | |
| Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) | | | |
| Flex Index | | | |
| Index Advice function | | | |
Mobile
App Services in Capella allow developers to more easily design, create, and run modern mobile and IoT applications with high performance to the edge. Development teams can save time, effort, and resources by streamlining setup configuration, synchronization, and ongoing database services management. Users get fast and always-on data with our embedded database.
| Mobile | Couchbase Capella | MongoDB Atlas/Realm | DynamoDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offline-embeddable database | | | |
| Peer-to-peer syncing | | | |
| Advanced syncing and conflict resolution | | | |
| Comprehensive device support | | | |
| Flexible deployment options | | | |
Cloud infrastructure
When you choose Capella, you have flexibility in how to deploy your DBaaS, configure across clouds, and with other Couchbase databases in a hybrid-cloud scenario.
| Cloud Infrastructure | Couchbase Capella | MongoDB Atlas | DynamoDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer data control | | | |
| Vendor managed | | | |
| Multicloud support | | | |
| On-prem to cloud replication | | | |
| Scalability | | | |
| Backup | | | |
| Automatic sharding | | | |
| Monitoring | | | |
| Patching and upgrades | | | |
| Versioning | | | |
Price/Performance ratio
Couchbase Capella’s speed and scalability mean that dollar-for-dollar and node-for-node, Capella outperforms competing products. Thanks to its memory-first architecture, asynchronous communication, built-in replication, and many other features, Couchbase delivers the same lightning-fast results for the millionth user as for the first.
| Price/Performance Ratio | Couchbase Capella | MongoDB Atlas | DynamoDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low TCO | | | |
| Node-for-node performance | | | |
| Customer-chosen cluster instances | | | |
Security
Couchbase Capella is architected to provide a wide breadth of data security features – including for authentication, authorization, encryption, and auditing – to keep your data secure and aligned to your organization’s needs. And our platform integrates with your existing security tools using industry-standard APIs and protocols.
| Security | Couchbase Capella | MongoDB Atlas | DynamoDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data isolation | | | |
| Node-to-node encryption | | | |
| Role-based access control (RBAC) | | | |
| Hardened IaaS environment | | | |
| UI & database in separate virtual private clouds | | | |
| Continuous monitoring & testing | | | |
| SOC II compliance | | | |
