{"id":14083,"date":"2023-02-08T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2025-06-13T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T03:41:03","slug":"edge-computing-in-space-starlink-couchbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/edge-computing-in-space-starlink-couchbase\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Stuff for Edge Computing in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>A<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WS Snowball + <\/span><\/i><b><i>S<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">paceX Starlink + <\/span><\/i><b><i>C<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ouchbase Capella = More uptime, lower latency and better bandwidth usage at the edge<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apps Must be Always Fast and Always on<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suppose you operate popup clinics in rural villages and remote locations where there is no internet. You need to capture and share data across the clinic to provide vital healthcare, but if the apps you use require an internet connection to work, they can\u2019t operate in these areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or perhaps you&#8217;re an oil and gas operator that needs to analyze critical warning data from a pressure sensor on a platform in the North Sea. If the data needs to be processed in cloud data centers, it has to travel incredible distances \u2014 at great expense \u2014 over unreliable networks. This incurs high degrees of latency, or network slowness, so by the time a result is sent back to the platform, it could be too late to take any action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These kinds of use cases represent a growing class of apps that require 100% uptime and real-time speed, guaranteed \u2014 regardless of where they are operating in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A fundamental challenge in meeting these requirements remains the network \u2014 there are still huge swaths of the globe with little or no internet \u2014 meaning apps that depend on connectivity cannot operate in those areas. Emerging advances in network technology are closing those gaps, but no matter the coverage, reliability or speed of a network, it will inevitably suffer slowness and outages that affect the applications that rely on it, resulting in a poor user experience and business downtime.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Responsible Development Choice<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you guarantee availability and ultra-low latency for apps, especially when operating in internet dead zones? This is made possible by understanding the challenges in network connectivity and working around them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The responsible development choice is to architect and build applications that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can still operate when network connectivity is interrupted or unavailable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can make the most efficient use of network connectivity when it is available, because it can be fleeting and may not always be fast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To do this, you must bring data processing and compute infrastructure to the near side of the network \u2014 that is, to the literal edge, such as in the popup clinic van or on the oil platform, reducing dependencies on distant cloud data centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taking it to the Edge<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloud Architecture<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cloud computing architecture assumes that data storage and processing is hosted in the cloud. In this depiction, application services and the database are hosted and running in the cloud, accessed from edge devices via REST calls:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14085 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-803x1024.png\" alt=\"Cloud architecture diagram\" width=\"507\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-803x1024.png 803w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-768x979.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-1205x1536.png 1205w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-300x382.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture-1320x1682.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/cloud-architecture.png 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cloud architecture depends on the internet for apps to operate properly. If there is any network slowness or interruption, the apps will slow or stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edge Architecture<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edge computing architectures bring data processing to the edge, close to applications, which makes them faster because data doesn\u2019t have to travel all the way to the cloud and back. And it makes them more reliable because local data processing means they can operate even without the internet. It&#8217;s not about getting rid of the cloud; you still need that eventual aggregation point. It&#8217;s about extending the cloud to the near side of the network. Edge architectures use the network for synchronization, where data is synced across the application ecosystem when connectivity is available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14086 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-831x1024.png\" alt=\"Edge data architecture\" width=\"577\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-831x1024.png 831w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-768x947.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-1246x1536.png 1246w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-300x370.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture-1320x1627.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/edge-architecture.png 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it&#8217;s important to note that by \u201csync &#8221; we mean something more than just using the network to replicate data. It&#8217;s also about using the precious and fleeting bandwidth as efficiently as possible when it&#8217;s available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sync technology provides cross-record compression, delta compression, batching, filtering, restartability and more \u2014 and because of these efficiencies it pushes less data through the wire, which is critical when on slow, unreliable or shared bandwidth networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simply put, an edge architecture allows you to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capture, store and process data where it happens, providing <\/span><b>availability and speed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sync data securely and efficiently throughout the app ecosystem as connectivity allows, providing <\/span><b>consistency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now let&#8217;s explore how to adopt an edge architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All You Have to do is <\/span><b>ASC<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past couple of years we\u2019ve seen a growth of next-gen technologies designed to make applications more available in more places and for more users than ever before. These advances are lowering the bar and making it easier for organizations to adopt edge architectures to guarantee speed, uptime and efficient bandwidth use for applications, especially those that operate in remote locations and internet dead zones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To build an edge architecture, you need four fundamental system components:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cloud compute environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An edge compute environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A network connecting the cloud and the edge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A database that synchronizes from the cloud to the edge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here we combine three state-of-the-art technologies to create an edge architecture that can operate at high speed, all the time, anywhere on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We call it the <\/span><b>ASC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stack:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WS Snowball<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>S<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">paceX Starlink<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>C<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ouchbase Capella<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is AWS Snowball?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/snowball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AWS Snowball<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a service that provides secure, portable, rugged devices (called AWS Snowball Edge devices) that run AWS infrastructure for powering applications at the edge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14087\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aws-snowball-edge-device.png\" alt=\"AWS snowball edge device\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/aws-snowball-edge-device.png 500w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/aws-snowball-edge-device-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/aws-snowball-edge-device-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/aws-snowball-edge-device-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/aws-snowball-edge-device-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AWS Snowball Edge Device (Source: Amazon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The devices are about the size of a suitcase and deliver local computing, data processing and data storage for disconnected environments such as ships, mines, oil platforms, field clinics and remote manufacturing facilities. Wherever AWS infrastructure is required but unfeasible due to lack of reliable internet, Snowball provides a portable solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Described in simpler terms, Snowball is an \u201cAWS-data-center-in-a-box\u201d that arrives at your door preconfigured with AWS services and ready to go. It supports AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, EBS and more. You plug it in, then access and manage the environment via the AWS Control Plane over local networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By providing a portable, familiar, standards-based infrastructure, AWS Snowball makes it easy for anyone to set up and run edge data centers without worrying about internet connectivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is SpaceX Starlink?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starlink<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a next-gen satellite internet service from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SpaceX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It is made up of \u201cconstellations&#8221; of thousands of small satellites in low earth orbit \u2014 about 340 miles in space. This is opposed to traditional large-scale geostationary satellites that orbit in a fixed location about 22,000 miles up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of the shorter physical distance between the customer&#8217;s dish and the satellite, Starlink can deliver 20- to 50-millisecond latency on average, which is much faster than traditional satellite internet (which, due to the greater distance, can suffer latencies up to 600 milliseconds or more).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lower orbit and smart network technology allows Starlink to offer performance comparable to terrestrial networks. Their \u201cBusiness\u201d service offers download speeds of up to 350 Mbps and latency of 20-40 ms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Starlink provides vital internet connectivity to areas with few or no other options, it is not foolproof. Connections can suffer slowdowns during <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.starlink.com\/topic?category=8&amp;category=39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">peak hours<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> when most users in a given cell are likely to be sharing bandwidth, or if the dish experiences <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.starlink.com\/?topic=f28de520-ef3f-138d-9f69-7f1b37433f1e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">interference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from nearby household appliances, fluorescent lights or other Wi-Fi networks. And obstructions such as cloud cover, tree branches or thick walls can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.starlink.com\/topic?category=8&amp;category=44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">interrupt the connection<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As such, it&#8217;s important to develop apps that can withstand the intermittent slowness and interruptions and remain fully available. To do so, you must maximize efficient use of this precious shared network resource by moving the smallest amount of data possible, in its most compact form.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is Couchbase?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase is a NoSQL cloud database platform with in-memory speed, SQL familiarity and JSON flexibility. It natively supports the edge architecture by providing:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/capella\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Capella<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: A fully managed cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/capella\/app-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capella App Services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Fully managed services for file storage, bidirectional sync, authentication and access control for mobile and edge apps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Lite<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: A lightweight embeddable version of the Couchbase database.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capella App Services synchronizes data between the backend cloud database and edge databases as connectivity allows, while during network disruptions apps continue to operate thanks to local data processing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With Couchbase, you can create multi-tier edge architectures to support any speed, availability or low bandwidth requirement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14088\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14088\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image5-1024x534.png\" alt=\"Couchbase provides built-in sync to support complex multitier edge architectures\" width=\"900\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image5-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image5-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image5-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image5-1536x801.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image5-1320x688.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image5.png 1999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Couchbase provides built-in sync to support complex multitier edge architectures<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Testing the Stack<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Engineering wanted to determine a baseline for how the ASC stack works better together, with each technology working to enhance and augment the others functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To do so, we set up the stack in a remote location in a classic edge architecture:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AWS Snowball Edge provides computing infrastructure at the edge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase is deployed to the Snowball Edge device for local data storage and processing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Capella serves as the hosted backend DBaaS in the cloud.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starlink provides the network from the Snowball Edge device to Couchbase Capella.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase Capella App Services provides secure synchronization between the edge database and the cloud database.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_14089\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14089\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image7.png\" alt=\"Couchbase on Snowball using Starlink\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image7.png 960w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image7-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image7-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Couchbase running on AWS Snowball using Starlink to Sync to Capella<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With this basic edge architecture in place, we set out to measure its effectiveness in reducing latency and bandwidth consumption as compared to a cloud architecture where the app reads and writes over Starlink via REST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We ran four test scenarios:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><b>Test 1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was to write 1,000 new docs to the Snowball Edge over a wired local area network (LAN) and measure the amount of data transferred and latency per operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><b>Test 2<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was to sync the 1,000 new docs from Snowball to Capella over Starlink and measure the amount of data transferred and complete time to transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><b>Test 3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was to write 1,000 new docs to Capella over Starlink and measure the amount of data transferred and latency per operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><b>Test 4<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was to sync the 1,000 new docs from Capella to Snowball over Starlink and measure the amount of data transferred and complete time to transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tests used a real-world product catalog dataset (1,000 products), at 650 bytes per record on average.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Results<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Latency Comparison<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apps accessing the Couchbase database running on the local Snowball device showed significantly reduced latency as compared to accessing the cloud database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For reads and writes, results showed that the edge architecture reduced latency by <\/span><b>98%<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as compared to the cloud architecture:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14090 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image3-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image3-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image3-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image3-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image3-1320x874.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image3.png 1396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bandwidth Comparison<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When comparing the edge architecture and the cloud architecture for bandwidth usage, results showed that the total data volume sent over Starlink decreased substantially on the edge architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of efficiencies enabled by synchronization, like cross-record compression, delta compression, batching, filtering, restartability and more, the edge architecture makes the best use of shared bandwidth \u2014 critical for peak periods, when connecting under heavy cloud cover, or in remote areas like forests or jungles where obstructions may impede speed and throughput.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Syncing updates over the edge architecture reduces the amount of data transferred over Starlink by <\/span><b>42%<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as opposed to using REST calls to a cloud architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14091 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image9-1024x709.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image9-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image9-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image9-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image9-1320x914.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/02\/image9.png 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These test results establish a conservative baseline for latency and bandwidth improvements that can be seen when using the ASC stack for a basic edge architecture. In a large production environment, improvements are likely to be more substantial.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Edge is Closer Than you Think<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couchbase has a long history of helping customers meet critical requirements for real-time speed and 100% uptime for their applications. 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