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
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
