Cox Automotive
Creating smart, enjoyable experiences for car buyers and sellers
Industry
Customer application
- Car dealer inventory management
NoSQL solution
Use case
- User profile store
- Inventory and availability
- Asset/resource management
- System of record
Product
Key features
- N1QL
- Multi-dimensional scaling
- In-memory database
- Cross datacenter replication
HomeNet Automotive, a division of Cox Automotive, is a leading provider of online inventory management and marketing solutions for car dealers. Cox turned to Couchbase for help when HomeNet had to scale its system from handling 6 million cars per day to 100 million. Couchbase was first implemented as a caching solution, then expanded to additional use cases. Cox uses SQL Server hardware but relies on Couchbase for speed, flexibility, and dependability to meet its high-throughput requirements for nontransactional data.
"We were looking for something we could do in a period of weeks not months, to take load off the SQL servers and provide scalability."
Tony Selke
Associate VP, Product & Engineering, Cox Automotive
CHALLENGES
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Had to scale from supporting 6 million car listings per day to 100+ million
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SQL Server crashed when Cox tried to list all of its staging tables
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Needed to implement caching ASAP to relieve pressure on the database
OUTCOMES
- It’s easy to add nodes to the Couchbase cluster as needed with no downtime
- Took only two weeks to get the Couchbase cache live in production
- Rapidly expanded Couchbase to more use cases, including the system of record
