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Add to SafariWhen comparing Baasbox vs Couchbase, the Slant community recommends Couchbase for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Firebase?” Couchbase is ranked 4th while Baasbox is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Couchbase is:
Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are open source and released under the Apache License.
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Pros
Pro Easy to deploy
Deploying BaasBox is very simple, and the documentation on their site is very helpful and easy to understand.
Pro Self hosted and hosted options
You can choose to either download and install Baasbox on your own server, or use their hosted solution.
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 No JavaScript SDK
The JavaScript SDK is not yet released although it should be available in the near future.
Con No longer maintained
Last commit is from 2015.
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
