The main difference is the consistency model: https://blog.couchbase.com/10-things-developers-should-know-about-couchbase/ https://blog.couchbase.com/10-things

The main difference is the consistency model: https://blog.couchbase.com/10-things-developers-should-know-about-couchbase/ https://blog.couchbase.com/10-things-developers-should-know-... Whereas CockroachDB aims to be strongly consistent. This makes life for the application developer much easier.