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Couchbase Server vs DocumentDB

Couchbase Server

couchbase.com

DocumentDB

documentdb.io

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FigureCouchbase ServerDocumentDB
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published21
Spec score · Document Databases6.1 (#24)8.6 (#5)

Plans

Couchbase Server

  • Community EditionPriced on request
  • Enterprise EditionPriced on request

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DocumentDB

  • DocumentDBFree

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Couchbase Server

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DocumentDB

DocumentDB is an MIT-licensed, open-source document database built on PostgreSQL for MongoDB compatibility. It stores native BSON documents, supports document CRUD and PostgreSQL SQL operations, and offers single-field, multi-key, compound, text and geospatial indexes, including nested fields. Pgvector powers vector search for embeddings and similarity search. MongoDB-compatible clients and tools include mongosh, PyMongo, the official MongoDB Node.js driver and a VS Code extension. The extension can create a local database, generate credentials and save a connection. DocumentDB runs locally in Docker or on a user’s infrastructure or cloud. Its gateway supports SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication, with TLS terminating at default port 10260. Hosted packages currently cover Ubuntu 24.04 and EL9 with PostgreSQL 17 or 18 for amd64 and arm64. A Kubernetes operator for failover, replication, backups and TLS is in preview and requires Kubernetes 1.35+ and cert-manager.

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