Oracle Replacement: Make the Switch to Couchbase

Couchbase is replacing Oracle to improve performance, increase flexibility, and reduce costs.

CHALLENGES

Top 3 reasons for choosing Couchbase over Oracle

Enterprise customers are replacing relational databases with Couchbase’s modern NoSQL databases to power their modern applications with greater agility and better performance at a lower cost.

CHALLENGE #1

Expensive and difficult to scale

Oracle costs 10-40x more with complex per-core licensing for servers with many cores.

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CHALLENGE #2

Lack of data flexibility

Oracle makes agile development more difficult, leading to slowdowns and downtime.

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CHALLENGE #3

Missing RDBMS features in NoSQL

Oracle has a hard time delivering low-latency performance for customer-facing applications.

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What’s included
SQL
ACID transactions
Schema flexibility
Horizontal scaling
Automatic replication
Built-in caching
Multi-model support
Mobile and edge sync
Automatic sharding
Multi-dimensional scaling
Database logic
REST management API

Couchbase
Eventing, UDF

Oracle
Limited native sharding, complex
Sprocs, triggers, views

CUSTOMERS

Success stories: From Oracle to Couchbase

“Couchbase was able to embrace with us our vision to the cloud, and that we wanted to operate data stores directly on PaaS.”

Vincent Bersin, Unit Manager, NoSQL Solutions, Amadeus

20 million operations per second

< 2.5 ms response times

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“For many years, we wanted a data store where we could go from the Java object right into the database without a big translation and overhead. This is it.”

Thomas Vidnovic, Solutions Architect, Marriott

4,000 transactions per second

30M+ documents

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“Couchbase is a highly scalable, distributed data store that plays a critical role in LinkedIn’s caching systems.”

Michael Kehoe, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, LinkedIn

10+ million queries per second

< 4 ms average latency

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Code snippet

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FROM users u
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SELECT u.Name, AVG(o.Total) AS AvgOrderTotal
FROM Users u
JOIN Orders o ON u.UserId = o.UserId
WHERE u.MembershipLevel = 'Gold' AND u.Status = 'active'
GROUP BY u.Name

Resources

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Documentation

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Concepts

Distributed ACID transactions for NoSQL applications

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Tutorial

Comparing Document databases and Relational databases

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Oracle Replacement: Make the Switch to Couchbase

Moving from relational to NoSQL

Top 3 reasons for choosing Couchbase over Oracle

Expensive and difficult to scale

Lack of data flexibility

Missing RDBMS features in NoSQL

Key features of Couchbase vs. Oracle

Success stories: From Oracle to Couchbase

SQL++ is a full-featured SQL implementation, like PL/SQL, with JOINs, CTEs, and CRUD

SQL to NoSQL: Migration

Learn more about how Couchbase compares to Oracle

Run your first SQL++ query

Distributed ACID transactions for NoSQL applications

Comparing Document databases and Relational databases

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