Couchbase

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Couchbase, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Couchbase is hard to work with, described as a bag of spanners, adding confusion2023-02-28
Official docs and dev tools are not good enough to get a basic service running2017-10-20
Log output is unreadable, so cluster problems can't be diagnosed by the user2014-06-25
Couchbase product is very confusing to figure out and use2012-05-16
Lists many CouchDB clients that don't work with Couchbase, confusing the user2012-01-05
Browsing data in the Couchbase interface is more complicated than in Futon2012-01-05
Took hours to understand what Couchbase and its editions are2011-11-01