Architect your application to deliver speedy, contextualized, and real-time data, all the time
Today’s telecommunication providers must manage a staggering amount of data that’s being generated every second of every day, in addition to supporting their OSS, BSS, and OTT applications. Couple that with the pressure to deliver value-add services for customers who can easily switch to a competitor, and you have an application environment that demands speedy, contextualized, and real-time data. That’s why these companies are leveraging Couchbase – to aggregate silos of data from different service offerings, to offload their mainframe, or to architect brand new applications that will eventually be used by hundreds of millions of users. From managing call records, subscriber information, billing, and value-add services to streaming media, Couchbase keeps up with the agility, performance, and always-on requirements these applications demand.
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Cisco chose Couchbase over Cassandra and MongoDB™ for its DVR-in-the-cloud application, achieving unmatched scalability and consistent 500 microsecond response times at very large scale.
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Viber replaced Redis and MongoDB™ with Couchbase to support user profile, offline message storage, push-to-talk, and more for over 530M users, reducing its total number of servers by more than half.
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Japanese telecom provider KDDI uses Couchbase to deliver over 45 million mobile customers uninterrupted service through push-button scalability.
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Verizon supports over 16K developers and 3.5M operations per second with Couchbase.
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Why Couchbase NoSQL for telecommunications
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. Unlike relational databases like Oracle and MySQL, Couchbase supports ever-increasing workloads and spikes in throughput demands. Couchbase scales (in, out, up, or down) easily and without disruption to meet these demands. Unlike MongoDB™, Couchbase won’t run out of steam when you need it most. See how Verizon’s ThingSpace platform scales to support millions of connected devices.
Blog: Scaling a Couchbase cluster for increasing and decreasing demand
Learn more about Couchbase’s Multi-Dimensional Scaling which gives you the option to separate, isolate, and scale individual database services
Performance: Better performance 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. Telefónica, a global telecommunications provider, supports 50M hits per day on its video-on-demand services.
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Availability: Built-in high availability and disaster recovery
Couchbase provides five-nines availability with built-in high availability and flexible cross datacenter replication (XDCR) capabilities that supports disaster recovery and data locality requirements. With Couchbase, you have full control over the topology – unidirectional, bidirectional, or any configuration you need. KDDI, one of the largest Japanese telecom companies, uses Couchbase to power its Business ID service which requires high availability for their millions of users.
Blog: Couchbase high availability and disaster recovery: Setting up XDCR step by step
Documentation: Couchbase availability
Presentation: Next Level High Availability with Couchbase Server 5.5
Mobile: Integrated mobile capabilities support omnichannel experiences
Couchbase is the only NoSQL database with built-in mobile support. Couchbase Mobile extends Couchbase Server to the edge with an embedded NoSQL database (Couchbase Lite) and a web gateway (Sync Gateway), enabling apps to work offline regardless of network availability, and powering use cases at the edge such as personalization, peer-to-peer messaging and sharing, and more.
Build a sample app with Couchbase Mobile
Tutorial: Getting started with data synchronization using Couchbase Mobile for offline-first apps
Flexibility: Lower costs and faster time to market
Couchbase drives the flexibility and increased operational efficiency you need to keep up with the constantly updated and changing digital communication data. Couchbase’s powerful query language allows developers to easily query JSON data using familiar, SQL-like expressions. Tightly integrated full-text search, real-time analytics, and powerful eventing services make it easy to add new features to your application on the fly without moving data into and managing dozens of database technologies, finally putting an end to database sprawl.
Learn more about N1QL, our SQL for JSON query language
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Analytics: Integrated analytics capabilities for real-time data insights
The Analytics service in Couchbase reduces the time to insight on operational data and simplifies operations for analytical data pipelines. Run ad hoc queries on data for real-time results and apply real-time analytics to monitor your applications.
Blog: Using Couchbase Analytics for complex and efficient queries in a Java application
Documentation: Deploying the Analytics Service
Telecommunications applications with Couchbase
Content entitlement
Content entitlement
Content entitlement management, including subscription-based access controls, content encryption key access and management, and parental controls. The Cisco internal platform consolidates all collaboration tools and manages user entitlements for 100B+ user sessions per year, while DirecTV supports 38M customer entitlements globally.
Mobile messaging
Mobile messaging
Store user profiles and messages with Couchbase, and scale to meet demand as user activity increases. Viber relies on Couchbase as their system of record when it comes to their mobile messaging application.
Rate limiting
Rate limiting
Measure the usage of data and services in real time as your subscribers consume them. Trigger events when limits are reached to enhance sales of add-ons.
Location manager
Location manager
Send targeted content to users based on location of their devices. BT uses Couchbase to power their customers’ set-top boxes, allowing BT to send personalized program guides and content recommendations for streaming.
Billing center
Billing center
Consolidate multiple billing systems into a single layer, and aggregate data from different billing sources to build a single view of your customer’s billing information.
Telecommunications solutions
Customer 360
Customer 360
Capture omnichannel engagements to create a single view and provide real-time, personalized data, updates, and offers at every touchpoint.
Catalog & inventory management
Catalog & inventory management
Deliver catalog and inventory data at scale to keep up with changing content.
Field service
Field service
Give employees the ability to provide or collect data at the source, whether it’s a customer visit or in store.
IoT data management
IoT data management
Leverage connected devices to deliver content and personalized offers to users in real time.
