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Couchbase Enterprise vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 31, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Companies reduced costs and increased speed-to-market with Couchbase Enterprise by replacing Redis and enhancing efficiency and productivity.
Sentiment score
5.1
Experiences with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced's ROI vary, with some noting gains and others facing cost-related challenges; opinions differ.
Reducing costs by half and supporting around five times the non-peak user volume during peak hours.
Couchbase maintained consistent productivity as a finished solution that worked well, saving us time dealing with something less efficient.
Actually, with MongoDB, it's difficult to calculate the return on investment; it's too expensive for our use.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Couchbase Enterprise support is largely positive but could improve in proactive support and personalized solutions for larger organizations.
Sentiment score
6.2
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced offers technical support, with varying feedback, while many rely on community resources for issue resolution.
The support team has been helpful with VNET configuration, Sync Gateway, and other technical issues.
We used the documentation, which was well-written and clear.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Couchbase Enterprise offers strong scalability, despite some challenges, proving ideal for large-scale data management and high throughput.
Sentiment score
7.6
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is scalable and adaptable, though users face challenges with manual scaling, sharding, and cost concerns.
It was easily scalable, which is expected from a NoSQL database.
Couchbase is extremely scalable, which is critical when handling high throughput and load.
In CosmoDB, the scalability is much better than with the MongoDB ReplicaSet models.
MongoDB is highly scalable.
Overall, on a scale of one to ten, I would rate MongoDB an eight; it's mostly because we're still running a monolithic environment on old hardware, so there are some limitations with read-write access.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Couchbase Enterprise is stable and reliable, though minor bugs and compatibility issues with updates can affect performance.
Sentiment score
7.6
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is highly stable and reliable, with few users experiencing minor bugs or stability issues.
We didn't experience any downtime, and the data stayed there consistently.
Couchbase is highly stable, rated at nine out of ten.
Once it's set up, it's easy to use, and there are no headaches.
 

Room For Improvement

Couchbase Enterprise faces challenges with system integration, scalability, support lag, documentation, and complex operations needing improvements.
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced requires security, scalability, integration, and UI improvements, along with better documentation and support for enhanced usability.
I would like Couchbase to provide more functionality via the UI, as some operations, such as time-based scaling, currently require using the API.
This delay meant that data on another database, Elasticsearch, was not always up to date, which could be noticed in the games.
What is missing is that they have a new version, Couchbase Mobile three, but they haven't really updated or provided help or documentation about what needs to change to update to the latest mobile version.
While solutions for other databases like SQL or PostgreSQL already exist, MongoDB requires additional integrations for developing AI solutions.
We have not contracted the security options in our contract because they're too expensive; thus, we implement just encrypted databases and not the security pack.
 

Setup Cost

Couchbase Enterprise offers flexible pricing with potential complexity, requiring careful consideration of licensing costs and integration expenses.
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is competitively priced against Oracle, with cloud options more affordable and ideal for large-scale operations.
They did update, and since then, I haven't had any problems anymore.
It can range between 25,000 to 40,000 Euros per year depending on company requirements.
We have to pay approximately 2,000 euros per month for MongoDB.
We use the free version of MongoDB, so there are no licensing costs.
 

Valuable Features

Couchbase Enterprise offers scalability, diverse paradigms, fast performance, mobile support, and ease of use with strong analytics and management.
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced provides scalable, flexible NoSQL solutions, offering fast performance, robust security, and easy integration for efficient data management.
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.
We didn't experience any downtime.
MongoDB's dashboards offer more functionalities and allow you to create a dashboard with MongoDB database data.
MongoDB has definitely helped us improve our network monitoring and reporting dashboard.
It offers flexibility in schema adaptation, allowing us to change the schema and add new data points.
 

Categories and Ranking

Couchbase Enterprise
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (5th), Managed NoSQL Databases (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the NoSQL Databases category, 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.
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

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…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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 there is an upgrade, we see many issues with compatibility or nodes not intercon...
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 clusters are set up and then we use Couchbase. It is a complex application setup we us...
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. I rate Couchbase seven out of ten.
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 that level, but I would say it's minimal and could be improved. I am not experi...
 

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Sample Customers

Amadeus, Cisco, Comcast, LinkedIn, GE
Facebook, MetLife, City of Chicago, Expedia, eBay, Google
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