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Author’s note: This excerpt from the Couchbase on Cisco UCS\u00ae\u00a0<\/span>solution brief is published on behalf of Cisco. Full solution brief\u00a0for Couchbase on Cisco UCS\u00ae<\/span> is available later in this blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the world migrates to a digital economy, businesses are adopting NoSQL databases as they discover that traditional relational databases can no longer handle the scale and speed at which data is being stored and served.<\/p>\n

Cisco Unified Computing System foundation<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Cisco Unified Computing System\u2122 (Cisco UCS\u00ae<\/span>) M5 server platform offers complete integration of computing, networking, and storage resources with unified management while providing high performance, expandable storage, and scalability for big data systems.<\/p>\n

Cisco UCS uses a fabric-centric architecture designed for business acceleration, providing true on-demand infrastructure, with a system that grows gracefully and incrementally.<\/p>\n

High performance with linear scalability<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data is a simplified, intelligent infrastructure with high performance and scalability to meet growing business demands.<\/p>\n

Couchbase enables users to define the scalability characteristics of their systems based on their actual technical business requirements.<\/p>\n

General-purpose database<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Couchbase Server is an open-source, distributed database engineered for scalability, performance, and availability. It is a general-purpose database that can be deployed as a document database, key-value store, or distributed cache.<\/p>\n

Couchbase also supports a robust collection of adapters for popular big data and analytics products.<\/p>\n

Distributed SQL-based querying<\/strong><\/h5>\n

N1QL is a full-featured, SQL-based query language that extends SQL to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and enables low-latency queries on distributed data, regardless of scale.<\/p>\n

Develop with Agility and Operate at Scale<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The business world is undergoing a massive change as enterprises are shifting toward a digital economy. At the core of every digital economy, business are its web, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. They are the primary means through which companies interact with customers today and run more and more of their business. The experiences that companies deliver through these applications largely determine customer satisfaction and retention.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s enterprise applications share one or more of the following characteristics. They need to:<\/p>\n