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"We are using the Community Edition of MongoDB."
"It is rather expensive."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"This is an open-source solution."
"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"I don't know, but I have heard from people who procure it that it is much cheaper than Oracle."
"MongoDB is not expensive."
"At the moment, all customers are using the community version."
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Top Answer: At the moment, all customers are using the community version.
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Apache CouchDB is open source database software that focuses on ease of use and having a scalable architecture. It has a document-oriented NoSQL database architecture and is implemented in the concurrency-oriented language Erlang; it uses JSON to store data, JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and HTTP for an API.
Open source database alternative to relational databases. It simplifies development and is extremely scalable.
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Energy/Utilities Company8%
Outsourcing Company8%
Comms Service Provider27%
Computer Software Company21%
Government7%
Educational Organization6%
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Midsize Enterprise11%
Large Enterprise56%
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CouchDB is ranked 11th in NoSQL Databases while MongoDB is ranked 1st in NoSQL Databases with 23 reviews. CouchDB is rated 0.0, while MongoDB is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of MongoDB writes "Good security, highly-available when installed in a cluster, and no schema is needed to store data". CouchDB is most compared with Apache HBase, Cassandra, Couchbase and Scylla, whereas MongoDB is most compared with InfluxDB, Scylla, Couchbase, Neo4j and SingleStore DB.
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