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Database costs, control, and global scale
Couchbase simplifies deployment, pricing, performance, management, global reach, and AI TCO compared to competitors
- Feature or Challenge
- Deployment needs
- Licensing
- Performance, caching, and scaling costs
- Management overhead
- Global application support
- TCO for AI workloads
- Couchbase
- Supports both self-managed and cloud for hybrid control.
- Usage-based with clear pricing and fewer add-ons.
- Scales efficiently with fewer nodes using memory-first design.
- Integrated services and self-healing reduce ops work.
- XDCR enables low-cost, multi-region replication.
- Lower TCO with native caching and vector support.
- MongoDB
- Offers both, but hybrid setups are harder.
- Cluster or usage-based, extra costs for features.
- Scales via sharding but often needs more nodes.
- Needs more manual tuning; Atlas eases some burden.
- Global clusters work but cross-region costs are high.
- Solid AI support but higher node count inflates cost.
- DynamoDB
- Fully managed only, no self-managed option.
- Pay-per-request or capacity; bills can spike.
- Auto-scales easily but throughput costs rise fast.
- Fully managed but limited customization and extra monitoring costs.
- Global tables replicate but add egress and consistency fees.
- Cheap for key-value AI, but lacks multi-model features.
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Lower total cost of ownership
Couchbase proves its value by reducing AI costs, cutting tech overlap, improving hardware efficiency, and lowering hidden operational expenses that inflate TCO.
AI costs add up
One platform, fewer tools
Efficiency through performance
Hidden ops costs matter
Customer
What customers are saying
“Couchbase is a trifecta of value. We get more features, save time, and spend less money all at once.”
50%
reduction in overall storage needs
500%
improvement in query performance
“Couchbase has never failed us or our customers.”
$3M+
saved with Couchbase
96%
of fraudulent transactions caught
“With less than half the servers, we’re able to increase performance and gain a much better, scalable architecture.”
60%
reduction in total servers (300+ to 120)
15B
calling and messaging events per day with Couchbase
“Couchbase Capella has the best pricing and performance we’ve seen from a DBaaS. We’ve reduced cost by 50% and increased performance by 2,000%.”
50%
cost reduction
2,000%
performance increase
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