Tesco

Managing millions of products at the world’s third-largest retailer

Industry

Customer application

  • Price and promotions
  • Stock
  • Shopping cart
  • Transport and tracking – IoE and real-time big data
  • Product onboarding

Solution

Use case

  • Profile management
  • Product catalog
  • Session store
  • Caching

Product

Key features

  • N1QL
  • Multi-Dimensional Scaling
  • Cross datacenter replication
  • In-memory database

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Couchbase powers catalog and inventory management at the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues, allowing Tesco to easily support tens of millions of products in-store and online for millions of customers. With Couchbase, Tesco can deliver a superior shopping experience, running price and promotions, stocking, shopping cart, supply chain, and new product apps with high performance and high availability.

 

CHALLENGES

  • Product data stored in multiple relational databases

  • Needed fast, easy access/sharing for product data throughout the company and ability to store and update product data for 10M items

  • Support frequently changing data and multiple data structures

OUTCOMES

  • Easily and inexpensively scales to support 10M products and 35K requests per second as well as seasonal Black Friday traffic

  • Low-latency access to millions of documents for great customer experiences

  • JSON enables flexible schema for changing SKUs and support for SQL and text-based queries

Tesco and Couchbase resources

Product page> Couchbase Server
Product page> Couchbase Mobile
Industry> Couchbase in Retail
Solution page> Customer 360
Solution page> Catalog & Inventory Management
Spotlight> Catalog use case

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