Resources
- [Press Release] Viber Chooses Couchbase to Support High Scalability Applications for Hundreds of Millions of Users
- [Article] Viber explains why it ditched MongoDB and Redis in favour of Couchbase
- [Presentation] Couchbase – Highlight Video: Viber Replaces MongoDB with Couchbase
- [Article] Viber migrates from MongoDB to Couchbase halves number of AWS servers
- [Article] Seeking High Scalability, Viber Opts for Couchbase
About Viber and Couchbase
In late 2013, Viber, a fast-growing messaging platform, was pushed to scale at a rate their backend could no longer support. At the time, the company had deployed 300 nodes – mostly composed of NoSQL competitor MongoDB, in combination with Redis – to address their scaling issues. In 2014, Viber announced its switch to Couchbase given the massive growth and scale the platform was attaining. The company was drawn to Couchbase by its easy and transparent sharding and scaling model, ability to provide higher throughput, and reduced number of nodes required. Couchbase’s unique consolidation of caching and database tiers made the technology especially appealing to Viber. Today Viber continues to use Couchbase to serve 12% of the world’s mobile devices with always-available messaging.
We found that MongoDB’s NoSQL technology could not adequately support the company’s growing data management needs. After investigating multiple database technologies such as Cassandra and Amazon’s DynamoDB, including more combinations of database plus caching layers, we deployed Couchbase. With Couchbase, we’re now able to handle hundreds of thousands of ops-per-second – an order of magnitude more than our previous solution.
Amir Ish-Shalom Chief Architect, Viber
About Viber
Viber is a leading messaging, voice and video service that lets everyone in the world connect. Freely. Users can send free text messages, fun stickers, photos, videos and doodles, share locations, make free HD-quality calls and communicate with Push-To-Talk. With Viber Out, users can make low-cost calls to any phone number around the world. With over 573 million unique users in 193 countries, Viber is constantly innovating by introducing new platforms and adding fun new features like Public Chats. Viber is a Rakuten Group company.
Watch Viber Presentations
Couchbase - Highlight Video: Viber Replaces MongoDB with Couchbase
Amir Ish-Shalom, Viber
Viber Replacing MongoDB with Couchbase
Amir Ish-Shalom, Viber