About Gannett
75%
reduction in licensing fees
140 million
digital audience served each month
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
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.
Gannett Platform Architecture Lead, Gannett
Industry
Use case
- Caching
- User profile store
Product
Key features
- In-memory database
- Cross datacenter replication