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 :)
MongoDB is a an actual for-profit company, so of course it has marketing. CouchDB is an open source apache project. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Its not just CouchDB, I did a lot of searching a little while back and I generally just don't like how tightly they've wrapped up almost all of the results. If you go by searching alone its overwhelmingly MongoDB positive to such an extent that its hard to believe its organic.
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.
So you are choosing software on it's technical merit and not just on popularity and hype!? What if there are no breaking changes every third month, what are you gonna do? Solve actual problems!? :P
Interesting. So they are catching a ride in the hype train by adopting the hyped technology... So this is why the tech stack is picked by and marketed to the business/directors rather then engineering.
Mongo reminds me of Tesla - early products were shoddy but had incredible hype.
"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.
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 :)