CouchDB has a worse performance than AWS S3
March 08, 2017

CouchDB has a worse performance than AWS S3

Josh Stapp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with CouchDB

It held a million SERP pages gathered each day. That information was then parsed to find ads on each page. Building the views and actually deleting files with a compact took ages. On a large AWS server, it took about a day to delete information for one day which has to happen every 6 months. We replaced CouchDB a year ago with AWS S3 and S3 has been amazing. We keep track of the metadata to pull S3 files in our own data base.

Pros

  • Can host on your own server
  • Views can do complex things to show subsets of data
  • Install was easy

Cons

  • SUPER SLOW. We do tons of data and S3 and just using the file system were both way faster
  • Using views is too complex
  • Stores entire DB as 1 file, good luck when it becomes many TB
  • It wasted our time.
  • It was easier to switch to AWS S3 from couchDB than it was to switch to couchDB from a filesystem so it set us up for that.
S3 blew this out of the water, we can get over 30 files a second, almost no failures, auto backed up, don't need our own server, and a much simpler interface with PHP Laravel.
Because our current solution S3 is working great and CouchDB was a nightmare. The worst is that at first, it seemed fine until we filled it with tons of data and then started to create views and actually delete.
If you want to do more than just storing files on the server, need to share them over the net and not use S3 then couchDB might work out. If you need something with performance and are writing 100GB daily, CouchDB is gonna have a hard time, particularly when you want to start actually deleting with compact rather than their delete that just soft deletes.

Comments

  • Nadir Boussoukaia | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Nadir Boussoukaia
    commented 7 years ago
    Never trust a laravel developer. Man. You are comparing apple And pies! One single server versus the biggest cluster in the world , and a database vs a File server... couch DB if not the fastest is among the fastest available.
  • Dave Lundberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Dave Lundberg
    commented 7 years ago
    Sorry, just saw this review and my experience is quite different. CouchDB is incredilbe *IF* you take time to understand it. I am baffled by the comparison to S3. Were you using CouchDB to store files as attachments? Probably a poor use of CouchDB. As for performance, we ingest millions of files per day (several T of data) on a very modest system. We have thousands of views on hundreds of databases. No issues, fast, fast, fast. Many views in single design doc - very bad. One view per design doc - incredible. Like most technologies, you really need to invest in understanding - like RTFD, prototype, try simple things - before you can make a decision. As I said in my review (I think I did), there is a lack of examples and there is a learning curve. But after 4+ years of using CouchDB, now coupled with logstash, ElasticSearch, etc., we made a great tech choice.

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