Deliver a responsive and reliable catalog and inventory solution
Businesses with large and dynamically changing portfolios require an agile and flexible data infrastructure that allows them to deliver relevant product content and a real-time view of inventory throughout the customer experience to drive every browse closer to a buy. Couchbase combines product and inventory information in real time, gives content authors the flexibility to make changes on demand, and delivers millions of requests per second at low latency – all in pursuit of a superior application experience.
Customer success spotlight
Sky, Europe’s largest media company and TV broadcaster, uses Couchbase to keep compelling content available during peak demand for over 22 million subscribers.
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Global hotel giant Marriott moved reservations and inventory systems off its mainframe and away from Oracle to Couchbase, achieving 4,000 transactions per second.
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Amadeus, the world’s leading transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, depends on Couchbase to deliver 8M ops-per-second at <2.5 ms response time.
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Flexibility: Integrate data from multiple sources
A multitude of information systems have led to an explosion of databases housing product content and real-time available-to-promise (ATP) inventory information. With Couchbase, eliminate database sprawl with one platform that is the single source of truth for managing and delivering your product and inventory data – one platform where data is available to any line of business within your organization and every consumer outside.
Couchbase’s flexible schema coupled with SQL++, full-text search, real-time analytics, and eventing services supports fast-changing images, SKUs, UUIDs, inventory, attributes, features, and product hierarchies, allowing you to get new products to market faster and into your customers’ hands.
Scale: Easier, more affordable scalability
Couchbase’s network-centric architecture with a high-performance replication backbone allows the database to be easily extended while maintaining performance at scale. Capture and consolidate product data across all channels in real time to serve catalog and inventory data, at scale, all the time. Easily add new features and microservices on top of a flexible and scalable data platform. Unlike relational databases like Oracle and MySQL, with Couchbase you can meet any demand and linearly scale easily and without disruption.
Performance: Better performance and higher availability than any other database
While other NoSQL databases like MongoDB™ require a third-party cache – adding to both cost and complexity – Couchbase has a fully integrated read-through and write-through caching layer. Couchbase’s memory- and network-centric architecture consistently delivers the sub-millisecond responsiveness that today’s users expect.
Availability: Built-in high availability and disaster recovery
Nothing hurts your users' experiences worse than an unavailable or slow product catalog. If they can't browse, how are they expected to buy? And once they do decide to purchase something, the selection and ordering process is just as critical. The last thing you want is the inability to scale to meet your peak demand. Couchbase provides five-nines availability with built-in high availability and flexible cross data center replication (XDCR) capabilities that supports disaster recovery and data locality requirements to ensure your product, cart, and customer data is always available. Combined with a microservices architecture, each component of a larger application continues to do what it does best, regardless of failures or load elsewhere. Couchbase powers some of the highest demanding catalog applications across retail, streaming media, and travel.
Mobile: Integrated mobile capabilities support omnichannel experiences
Couchbase is the only NoSQL database that supports interactions online, in store, or on the go. Couchbase Mobile extends Couchbase Server to the edge with an embedded NoSQL database (Couchbase Lite) and a web gateway (Sync Gateway), enabling use cases such as in-store personalized apps, point of sale systems, real-time coupons and rewards, and mobile catalogs.
Industry use cases & solutions
Retail
Optimized shopping experiences with dynamically changing product and pricing portfolios, shopping cart, recommendations, and media/content catalog data.
Travel & Hospitality
Power the shopping cart, inventory/price engine, recommendation engine, reservation data, and content catalog.
Financial Services
Manage up-to-date financial portfolio data, product and pricing engines, financial advisor recommendations, insurance portals, and more.
Media & Entertainment
Power media/content catalogs and product/pricing engines to deliver catalog and inventory management solutions.
Healthcare
Build robust healthcare applications with services like inventory management, product catalog, and more.
Reference architecture
A reference architecture built with the Couchbase shows a Catalog and Inventory service storing product, price, inventory, and session information under a unified services layer.
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Blogs & Videos
- How Tommy Hilfiger is digitally transforming with Couchbase
- Implementation of Couchbase at cars.com
- Scaling a Couchbase cluster for increasing and decreasing demand
- See how eBay uses 1,000+ nodes of Couchbase for peak performance
- Couchbase high availability and disaster recovery: Setting up XDCR step by step
- Next level high availability with Couchbase Server 5.5
Documentation & Tutorials
- Amadeus powers millions of bookings per day with Couchbase
- Learn more about N1QL, our SQL for JSON query language
- Take the N1QL tutorial
- Learn more about Couchbase’s multi-dimensional scaling
- See how Couchbase outperforms on enterprise workloads
- Couchbase availability
- Build a sample app with Couchbase Mobile