You probably need to define your actual requirements rather than this nebulous term. The "DO offering" is a basic VPS and you host/manage the couchdb process y

You probably need to define your actual requirements rather than this nebulous term. The "DO offering" is a basic VPS and you host/manage the couchdb process yourself. DO does not offer a managed couchdb service. I've found couchdb to be reasonably stable and worry free. The nature of pouchdb/couchdb and the design philosophy behind it makes it relatively easy to scale to additional servers. Couchdb is master-master, which is a good eventually consistent model that should help in any horizontal scaling. The base process is erlang/elixir which should scale vertically well. I've been using it a couple of years, but not on any sites that have significant traffic.