What is Couchbase?
Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible SQL databases, the Couchbase NoSQL database is built on an open source foundation and architected to help developers solve real-world problems and meet high scalability demands.
Couchbase is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
Why developers like Couchbase
Flexible data model, easy scalability, extremely fast
High performance
Mobile app support
You can query it with Ansi-92 SQL
All nodes can be read/write
Open source, community and enterprise editions
Equal nodes in cluster, allowing fast, flexible changes
Both a key-value store and document (JSON) db
Automatic configuration of sharding