Product models move quickly. When every schema change needs a carefully managed migration, the data layer can become the slowest part of a product experiment.
MySQL and Postgres are excellent tools, but I wanted a database that made iteration fast while still supporting familiar, SQL-like querying. That led me to Couchbase: a strong MongoDB alternative with fast indexes and a low-friction transition for teams coming from relational databases.
CouchSet
CouchSet began as an experiment and became an ORM for defining models and letting the surrounding plumbing follow from those definitions.
From a single object definition, CouchSet could generate common CRUD operations and provide GraphQL-friendly pagination queries. The goal was simple: spend less time repeating the same backend scaffolding, and more time shaping the product.
I used it across projects, including RoadmanJS, whenever I wanted a fast path from an idea to a working data model.