As someone who has worked with many of the various tools out there, I have a lot of respect for the way the EmberJS team handles upgrades. I personally wish more teams learned from their success. Their mantra is “stability without stagnation.” While it is not perfect, the team appears to try hard to move the framework forward without breaking backwards compatibility. When it comes to a major release, I.e. the just released 3.0, the team released no new features, but rather just removed the features that had been depreciated in earlier releases.

Like or hate Ember as a framework, the team has developed some very good release processes and practices a lot of us could learn from.

Why use CouchDB instead of Couchbase?

Full RESTful HTTP/JSON API

I presume the parent was talking about couchbase's SyncGateway offering, but maybe not.

My favorite explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/3737009 They are very different things and Couchbase is just misleading since it doesn't have much to do with original CouchDB at all and in general the consensus seem to be that CDB is better than CB but CB is just being heavily marketed.

That analysis is from 4 years ago and is wrong in many, many ways at this point. As for "the general consensus", I'd like to see evidence that's true among real enterprise users. (FD: I work for Couchbase.)

> That analysis is from 4 years ago and is wrong in many, many ways at this point.

Can you elaborate on how it is wrong at this point?

Investigated the grand parent's question myself, though not extensively. The stackoverflow comment contains a lot of items which aren't true (couchbase does have document id's). The replication is multi-master but is cluster wide, which means couchbase has really nice tools to manage adding/removing nodes but doesn't offer ad-hoc replication (AFAIK). The SO comment also lists a bunch of things which won't matter to many devs like pure http-rest api as they'll end up using client libraries anyway from a middle tier layer.

Not to say Couchdb doesn't have many great advantages like the rest api and self-hosted apps, couchbase does to my mind seem like a good but not 100% alternative to couchdb (and vice-versa). Mainly I like that incremental map reduce is still available along with the atomic type of documents and revisions but clustering is still much more developed in CB.