Oracle versus Couchbase – NoSQL Comparison

Moving From Relational to NoSQL whitepaper

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Addressing cost, reliability, & performance challenges

Top 3 reasons for replacing
Oracle with Couchbase

Cost-effective and flexible deployment options

Couchbase's node-based licensing typically costs 10-40x less
Oracle challenge: cost-effective scaling
than Oracle with its complex per-core based licensing – especially on servers with many cores.
Because Couchbase has a flexible JSON-based data model, developers can build applications with agility, and without needing a dedicated DBA to manage schemas.

Couchbase comes with fully integrated caching and supports data persistence at scale. It also provides a full mobile stack with an embedded database and sync to deliver online/offline mobile experiences.

Scalable platform with high-performance caching

Couchbase is based on a shared-nothing, memory-first architecture with an integrated cacheThe requirements of a good caching layer are simplicity and low latency.
Learn more and memory-to-memory replication. The result is consistent high-throughput performance with sub-millisecond response times at any scale.

Couchbase provides cross datacenter replication (XDCR), making it easy to set up active-active bidirectional clusters across multiple regions. Applications can perform local read and write across regions, improving data latency and availability.

All the features you expect from RDBMS in NoSQL

Couchbase provides a SQL-based query languageGet the familiarity of SQL with the flexibility of JSON.
Learn more for JSON documents, and supports filtering, ANSI joins, aggregation, and more.

Couchbase also supports both single-document and distributed multi-document ACID transactions.

This combination of performance at scale, availability, data model flexibility of JSON, programming power of SQL, and ACID guarantees makes Couchbase the proper foundation for modern applications.

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How companies offload Oracle workloads to Couchbase

Amadeus uses Couchbase in applications that process petabytes of data at over 2.5M operations per second. With Couchbase, Amadeus is able to handle peak workloads and unexpected spikes while avoiding the cost and complexity of scaling a relational database.

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As part of its legacy modernization efforts, Marriott is using Couchbase to offload room availability and reservations workloads from a backend mainframe. Making the move to Couchbase enables Marriott to achieve 4K transactions per second and offer new services, even as the company reduces related costs.

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Nuance decided to switch to NoSQL because its monolithic all-Oracle environment was expensive to scale and inflexible for varied data. MongoDB™ was too hard to manage, but Couchbase was perfect for easy, cost-effective performance at scale and bidirectional replication.

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Global e-commerce company eBay uses Couchbase to store user authentication tokens and session state. By storing short-lived data in a memory-optimized database, Couchbase enables eBay to boosts application performance for 110B Couchbase calls per day while reducing load on the relational database.

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