When comparing Kuzzle vs Couchbase, the Slant community recommends Kuzzle for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Firebase?” Kuzzle is ranked 3rd while Couchbase is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Kuzzle is:
Supports REST, WebSockets and MQ protocols.
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Pros
Pro Multiprotocol
Supports REST, WebSockets and MQ protocols.
Pro Realtime through filters
You do not connect to classic rooms but to search filters and can be warned of changes on permanent storage or volatile one.
Pro Open Source
Kuzzle is open source and it's released under the Apache 2 License.
Pro Javascript SDK
A fully documented javascript SDK exists.
Pro Open source
Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are open source and released under the Apache License.
Pro Easy to implement N1QL queries
Pro Ability to run ad-hoc SQL like queries on realtime big data
Couchbase N1QL allows native SQL processing over JSON data with high performance indexing for low latency queries at scale.
Pro Easy sync protocol to mobile devices
The minimal code needed to pull data down to a device
Pro Available on Windows, Linux & macOS
Pro Ability to make predefined fast queries
With Couchbase you can make "Views" of data, which are practically predefined queries which are fetched with an O(1) algorithm.
Cons
Con May have issues since it's stil la relatively young project
Kuzzle is (as of February 2nd, 2015) in alpha version and approaching beta.
Con Vendor lock-in
Con No model mapper for Android
Couchbase does not have a model mapper for Android built-in and out of the box, instead you will have to write your own from scratch.
Con Not Compatible with couchdb
Since version 2 the sync-protocol is no longer compatible with couchdb. This makes couchbase nearly worthless
