Couchbase hits back at MongoDB - claims it has better performance

Battle of the 'bases continues as Couchbase produces research refuting Mongo's claims

Couchbase has hit back at recent research that claimed MongoDB had raced ahead of its NoSQL database competitors for scalability, by revealing its own recent benchmarks which it claims proves that Couchbase Server outperforms both Cassandra and MongoDB.

Yesterday at MongoDB World in New York, MongoDB revealed that research carried out by benchmarking and performance-testing firm United Software Associated (USA Inc) found that it edged its rivals for scalability.

And Couchbase hasn't wasted any time in responding to the research. It said in a recent benchmark Couchbase Server 3.0 demonstrated a 4.5x performance advantage over MongoDB 3.0 with Wired Tiger.

"Even with WiredTiger, MongoDB 3.0 delivered less than one-fourth the throughput rate of Couchbase Server 3.0 using the same resources," the company said.

It went on to state that it continues to see value on conducting transparent, repeatable benchmarks.

"They make it easier for the market to see which NoSQL databases perform well on targeted use cases," said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase.

The benchmarks were carried out by independent firm Avalon LLC.

Couchbase also claimed that in a new benchmark, Couchbase Server 3.0 sustained 1.1 million writes per second with low latency on Google Cloud Platform, using 50 nodes while Cassandra required 300 nodes.

"The results show that to sustain one million writes per second on Couchbase would cost 83 per cent less than what it does on Cassandra - $56 per hour for Couchbase compared with $330 per hour for Cassandra," the company claimed.