MongoDB has _suspiciously_ amazing SEO and marketing. CouchDB's by contrast is awful.
As silly as that sounds as a reason to choose CouchDB it demonstrates where the respective company's priorities lie.
As silly as that sounds as a reason to choose CouchDB it demonstrates where the respective company's priorities lie.
CouchDB is a community-run Apache Software Foundation project (that has corporate contributors as well as individual contributors) at a much lower scale than MongoDB.
Of course MongoDB’s marketing is better, they are spending a lot of money on it. If you’d like to help out with CouchDB’s marketing, we can always use another helping hand :)
It's definitely impressive marketing but when I'm deciding on which tool to use that arguably works against them as opposed to for them.
"It's incredibly fast!" "It's web scale!" "It'll be able to drive itself cross country in a couple of months!"
And I think the unfounded/exaggerated hype bothered a lot of us, but like Tesla, the actual product seems to have improved quite a lot as they've had time and resources to throw at it. So sure, some of us remember Teslas and MongoDB from 2013 and scoff, but the current reality is much different.