DirecTV

DirecTV - Streaming over 3,000 channels of unique content

DirecTV is a leader in digital entertainment, serving over 38 million customers with 3,000+ channels. Because they deliver content from a wide variety of providers and for numerous formats, DirecTV required a flexible architecture that could easily support multiple schemas while ensuring high scalability and 100% uptime. With Couchbase, DirecTV found everything they were looking for, plus a SQL-based query language that simplified adoption. To seal the deal, Couchbase performed twice as fast as the closest competitor when DirecTV ran proof-of-concept trials.

About DirecTV

Challenges

Fast-paced industry requires constant innovation
Customers demand 100% uptime without exception
Had to manage a wide variety of data formats and requirements
NoSQL alternatives were difficult to use and scale

Outcomes

Dynamic modeling with NoSQL and Node.js streamlines development
Cross datacenter replication delivers high availability
Couchbase’s NoSQL provides unmatched flexibility, scalability, and performance
SQL-based N1QL query language enables a nearly flat learning curve

When they introduced me to N1QL, we quickly realized that N1QL offers the flexibility to search with a language that looks like 99% the same as SQL. So for all developers, it was an easy transition.

Fidencio Garrido Principal Engineer, DirecTV