Gannett
Connecting consumers to content and businesses to customers
Industry
Customer application
- Metadata management
- Content management system
NoSQL Solution
Use case
- Caching
- User profile store
Product
Cloud provider
- AWS
Key features
- In-memory database
- Cross datacenter replication
Gannett is one of America’s largest media companies, reaching a digital audience of nearly 140 million people each month. After experiencing network outages and replication issues with SQL Server, Gannett decided to move their systems to a NoSQL database for greater reliability and flexibility. At the same time, they wanted a more portable infrastructure that fit their evolving hybrid cloud strategy. Couchbase not only delivered better performance and scalability than competitors like MongoDB™, but also cut Gannett’s licensing fees by 75%.
“We looked at multiple NoSQL options including MongoDB and Cassandra, and we really liked the architecture of Couchbase – the memory-first approach, N1QL, and cross datacenter replication.”
Platform Architecture Lead, Gannett
CHALLENGES
- SQL Server caused outages and replication issues, while MongoDB was difficult to scale
- User experiences have to work seamlessly across a wide variety of devices and content types
- Hybrid cloud strategy requires easy database portability
- Licensing fees were excessive
OUTCOMES
- High reliability, simple scalability, and easy manageability
- Flexibility to easily support multiple schemas using JSON documents
- Couchbase is cloud native and deploys in minutes on the leading cloud platforms
- Licensing fees were only 25% of what Gannett paid for SQL Server
