There’s already a question on the forums that seems to partially answer this. Asking there may prompt more answers
Otherwise from the Couchbase documentation::
'a view is not a query, it’s an index. Views are
persistent, and need to be updated (incrementally) whenever documents
change, so having large numbers of them can be expensive. Instead, it’s
better to have a smaller number of views that can be queried in
interesting ways. ’
I’d love to know about those interesting ways myself , the full doc::