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Cassandra vs Couchbase Enterprise vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cassandra is 9.7%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Couchbase Enterprise is 8.7%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 15.1%, down from 25.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Himanshu Amodwala - PeerSpot reviewer
Well-equipped to handle a massive influx of data and billions of requests
The use of Cassandra in real-time data analytics has been pivotal for our e-commerce platform. As our platform operates 24/7, providing services to sellers and customers alike, the need for real-time updates is paramount. For instance, when a customer leaves comments or feedback on an image, they anticipate an immediate reflection of these changes on the portal. Similarly, sellers altering product attributes or updating images expect instant visibility of these modifications. Handling large data volumes with Cassandra has been an excellent experience. Despite challenges related to the influx, these were not attributed to Cassandra itself but rather to middle-layer issues. Generally, it demonstrated scalability with workloads, thanks to its horizontal scaling capabilities. We could easily add new nodes to the system as needed, ensuring the platform coped well with increasing loads. The tool's most beneficial feature for scalability is its entire architecture. The absence of a single point of failure or a leader within the ecosystem contributes to its robust scalability. This key aspect influenced our decision to opt for the Cassandra ecosystem. In terms of performance, it demonstrated the ability to handle approximately 1.6 billion requests per day. This was achieved on AWS using EC2 instances, and it was during a period about four to five years ago.
Ravi_Singh  - PeerSpot reviewer
Supports multiple data models and offers AI capabilities
With some of the operations, we used to face some challenges with scalability. Although it worked pretty well, in some scenarios, we noticed issues where the replications and the sharding were not happening correctly. In recent versions, we also faced some issues in terms of enabling advanced operations like FTS and vectors. Although it works pretty well, in some places, we do face challenges, especially on a heavy scale. I think all issues are being addressed in the latest version of Couchbase. The resources are not that good for Couchbase. The tool's documentation is pretty extensive, but if you go for any kind of courses or tutorials, there are very limited resources available. It also becomes a little bit challenging for new people to get onboard into it. MongoDB and other such open-source database tools perform really well as they're really widely adopted, and they have resources available to get you onboarded pretty quickly. I think that we do face some challenges with Couchbase, but luckily, we have the tool's enterprise version solution, so we get all the support from the product team.
Uzair Faruqi - PeerSpot reviewer
Transforms data flow with adaptable schema and smooth public cloud deployment
One of our business units uses MongoDB, and we developed an ETL pipeline that extracts data from MongoDB and transfers it into our data warehouse MongoDB is a NoSQL database that is similar to a document database. It offers flexibility in schema adaptation, allowing us to change the schema and…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The time series data was one of the best features along with auto publishing."
"The most valuable feature of Cassandra is its fast retrieval. Additionally, the solution can handle large amounts of data. It is the quickest application we use."
"I'd rate the solution ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its speed and distributed nature."
"Cassandra is good. It's better than CouchDB, and we are using it in parallel with CouchDB. Cassandra looks better and is more user-friendly."
"Some of the valued features of this solution are it has good performance and failover."
"Our primary use case for the solution is testing."
"The most valuable features of Cassandra are its scaling capabilities and its non-SQL nature capabilities."
"I rate Couchbase a nine out of ten."
"The main advantages were associated with it being a no SQL database. It helped us send out metrics or rewards to multiple players in our game at a very low latency."
"It is pretty stable."
"The best thing about Couchbase is its versatility in handling data."
"The most valuable features of Couchbase include the key-value storage due to its speed and the multi-master capability, which provides more speed and scalability compared to master-slave databases."
"The whole stack is valuable, but the portion of the stack that we're finding really handy is the analytics engine because that allows us to take and pre-build views."
"Couchbase was a stable solution for us."
"The most valuable features are the ease of application and the merging of data."
"It can handle a lot of files quickly."
"Sharding is an excellent feature of MongoDB."
"MongoDB has many good replication features and good performance."
"MongoDB is easy to use."
"It is easy to set up."
"Its flexibility, and cost. It is reasonably priced."
"The aggregation framework is really good, allowing a developer to build very complex queries."
"MongoDB stores the JSON data, and it's easy for me to understand because I'm a JavaScript Developer."
 

Cons

"Depending upon our schema, we can't make ORDER BY or GROUP BY clauses in the product."
"Cassandra is very complex to manage. Sometimes, I need to involve a senior DevOps engineer if we encounter a problem."
"The solution is limited to a linear performance."
"Cassandra could be more user-friendly like MongoDB."
"Batching bulk data can cause performance issues."
"Doesn't support a solution that can give aggregation."
"The solution doesn't have joins between tables so you need other tools for that."
"Fine-tuning was a bit of a challenge."
"The scripting language for this solution could be improved. A big selling point is that they're like SQL server but there is still quite a lot of missing functionality."
"Overall as a tool, I see room for improvement in Couchbase in certain aspects."
"Couchbase could improve the design of the UI because it should be optimized for viewing statistics or a similar feature."
"I would like Couchbase to provide more functionality via the UI, as some operations, such as time-based scaling, currently require using the API."
"The performance could be quicker and better, especially in the querying process."
"Although it worked pretty well, in some scenarios, we noticed issues where the replications and the sharding were not happening correctly."
"It is very difficult to load the backup of the older version to the newer version."
"Needs some capacity planning to deal with too much memory, CPUs and displays."
"The MongoDB documentation can be a little complicated sometimes."
"The stability could be better."
"The performance could be faster."
"The free tools, like MongoDB Compass, could be enhanced."
"It could be more stable. It would be better if it were more user-friendly like Oracle, which is very easy. For example, creating an index is simple in Oracle. In MongoDB, it's quite challenging to do that. Performance could be better. It's fast and good, but you cannot put every application that you would like to in MongoDB."
"The solution could have more integration."
"MongoDB should be more stable, and support should be more efficient."
"MongoDB could improve by not having so many updates and different versions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are licensing fees that must be paid, but I'm not sure if they are paid monthly or yearly."
"We are using the open-source version of Cassandra, the solution is free."
"Cassandra is a free open source solution, but there is a commercial version available called DataStax Enterprise."
"I use the tool's open-source version."
"I don't have the specific numbers on pricing, but it was fairly priced."
"We pay for a license."
"It seems very reasonable. It's a lot cheaper than Redis, but we've got an enterprise license. So, it's about normal. It's not outrageous in price as far as we've seen. From Couchbase, there's no additional fee as far as I'm aware, but when you're integrating, there's an additional fee because a lot of times, they don't have an integration stack."
"We estimate that it's not very expensive, however, the pricing that you can get from the account managers, e.g. the public pricing, could be a bit expensive."
"I wouldn't say Couchbase offers good value for money."
"It can range between 25,000 to 40,000 Euros per year depending on company requirements."
"The licensing cost of Couchbase is quite expensive compared to other databases."
"I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing as it is affordable."
"The price of this solution is better than some of the other competitors."
"It's open-source."
"MongoDB's pricing is not reasonable, but it is not as expensive as the others."
"It's a community edition, so we do not pay anything."
"MongoDB is not expensive."
"I'm using the free version of MongoDB."
"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"MongoDB is a free solution. We wanted to have high availability and the subscription cost was quite expensive because the basic one is free and then when you want to have some other replications or other features you will need to pay money. Overall the solution is expensive."
"At the moment, all customers are using the community version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cassandra?
The use of Cassandra in real-time data analytics has been pivotal for our e-commerce platform. As our platform operat...
What needs improvement with Cassandra?
While Cassandra can handle NoSQL, I think there should be more flexibility for whole schema design when data is store...
What needs improvement with Couchbase?
The main issue we keep facing from the past couple of years, observing other teams using Couchbase, is that whenever ...
What is your primary use case for Couchbase?
Basically we have clusters, Couchbase clusters, databases, and that is how we use Couchbase with XDCR. All the cluste...
What advice do you have for others considering Couchbase?
It is a good solution, but as every product needs improvement, this also needs some enhancement. It is a good product...
What do you like most about MongoDB?
MongoDB's approach to handling data in documents rather than traditional tables has been particularly beneficial.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MongoDB?
We pay approximately 2,000 euros per month for MongoDB.
What needs improvement with MongoDB?
I'm not sure about the documentation or the knowledge bases available for MongoDB because I don't interact with it at...
 

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