Hi,
I love couchbase and also the multi dimensional scaling. I think it’s a great idea to split services, so a overload of f.e. FTS does not affect the data service. The only problem here, the licensing model doesn’t really fit the needs for smaller companies.
Let’s say I have a small cluster with:
3 x data (1 x replica)
2 x index/query (1x replica)
2 x fts (1 x replica)
So I need 7 licenses, also when all of the nodes are small. If the management now ask me as a developer: “can we put all this on 3 nodes and save 60% of the license costs”, I have to say “yes”. Of course the splitted variant is better, but is it worth the 4 additional licenses, which more than doubles the costs…? So I think there should be a better license model for this. Something like pay-per-service maybe? So I can buy 3 data licenses, 2 index licenses and 2 fts licenses?
Thanks, Pascal