Curious, why the downvotes? I wanted to also add that it makes a difference if you only want one server or not. A good small Couchbase cluster has at least 3 n

Curious, why the downvotes? I wanted to also add that it makes a difference if you only want one server or not. A good small Couchbase cluster has at least 3 nodes. If you have VirtualBox, puppet and vagrant, this makes it ridiculously easy to bring up a small cluster: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/vagrants https://github.com/couchbaselabs/vagrants Note: you still have to use the UI to configure the cluster but this gets the nodes (VMs) up and running quickly.