It was popular briefly on HN back in 2015, so it had a late start compared to Mongo which was maybe 2012? And the commercialization of memcached was perhaps not

It was popular briefly on HN back in 2015, so it had a late start compared to Mongo which was maybe 2012? And the commercialization of memcached was perhaps noticed most by PHP devs, as memcached is common enough with Wordpress and Drupal, though Redis might have overtaken it some. I always thought couchbase was a very interesting idea but never had the chance to seriously suggest it at work. These endorsements actually help me consider it, but at the time it seemed like they didn’t do a great job explaining who was using it and why/how it made a difference. I’ve heard more, recently, about using DocumentDB or CockroachDB than it, actually. And most places I work at are still riding the Postgres/Oracle/SQL traditional database shop, where it’s easier to introduce Redis or Memcached than to switch where all the data is stored. Using it for a new project would require buy in, but might be viable.