Ask HN: Why is Couchbase Server under-represented here?

[isoos]

While Couchbase Server looks like a viable alternative to MongoDB, CockroachDB, TiDB, or even Cassandra, I see very little discussion about it here on HN in the past few years.

Is there any reason for that? Is the technology not living up to the marketing? Is it not hipster enough?

It looks like a good technology stack with easy to use server administration and integrated features most app can use (e.g. full-text search). I am a bit surprised that it is not featured here.

[prashere]

I have built applications that uses couchbase both on server side and couchbase-lite on Android. Couchbase with the ability to sync between client and server replication is the best thing to happen and available free (community edition) today.

Unfortunately couchbase-server consumes lot of resource on the backend and it's heavy, which brings an entry of barrier from a start up point of view.

[isoos → prashere]

Do you have some numbers about the resource usage that you can share? 4GB minimum memory (16G recommended) is necessarily a heavy requirement given the wide variety of things the server does. CockroachDB may be similar to this, and my servers consume between 1-2GB memory usually.

[newsoul2019 → prashere]

This is true. Generally, you need at least 3 nodes for the smallest Couchbase cluster. At least that was true a couple of years ago.

[newsoul2019]

Have wondered the same thing. But their strategy was enterprise-first as opposed to developer-first like some competitors.