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Couchbase Case Study

Small Business Computer Software Company Improves Application Uptime & Availability Significantly with Couchbase

Introduction

This case study of a small business computer software company is based on a July 2020 survey of Couchbase customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Speed and versatility.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Couchbase:

Experienced the following challenge prior to implementing Couchbase:
- Long development cycles due to inefficiencies
Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Couchbase:
- MongoDB
- Postgres

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Couchbase that the surveyed company uses:

Values the following Couchbase features compared to other solutions they have used:
- Flexible schema
- Kubernetes
- SQL++
- XDCR
Is storing up to 1,000,000 documents in Couchbase.
Is storing up to 200GB of data in Couchbase.
Is running up to 50k requests/operations per second in Couchbase.
Describes their Couchbase deployment:
- Clusters: 10-50
- Nodes: 50-200

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Couchbase:

Rates the following improvements since working with Couchbase:
- Increased query performance: up to 25%
- Increased operational efficiency: up to 25%
- Accelerated development cycles: 25-49%
- Accelerated response times: 25-49%
- Experienced more efficient database management: 25-49%
- Improved application uptime & availability: 50-74%

Couchbase Customer Satisfaction Rating

An Engineer at a medium enterprise telecommunications services company would be likely to recommend Couchbase for this reason:

Couchbase Case Study

Global 500 Retail Company Increases Operational Efficiency by over 100% with Couchbase

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 retail company is based on a July 2020 survey of Couchbase customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Couchbase works very smoothly and it’s quite easy to use by the developers.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Couchbase:

Experienced the following challenges prior to implementing Couchbase:
- Poor database management
- Having an expensive solution
- Long development cycles due to inefficiencies
- Scaling
- Performance
Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Couchbase:
- MongoDB
- Redis

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Couchbase that the surveyed company uses:

Values the following Couchbase features compared to other solutions they have used:
- SQL++
- Cache
- Memory-first architecture
Is storing 50 – 500 million documents in Couchbase.
Is storing 200 GB – 1 TB of data in Couchbase.
Is running more than 10M requests/operations per second in Couchbase.
Describes their Couchbase deployment:
- Clusters: up to 10
- Nodes: up to 10

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Couchbase:

Saw returned value within 6-9 months after implementing Couchbase.
Rates the following improvements since working with Couchbase:
- Lowered total cost of ownership: 25-49%
- Increased query performance: 100%+
- Increased operational efficiency: 100%+
- Accelerated development cycles: 100%+
- Accelerated response times: 100%+
- Experienced a more efficient help desk: 25-49%
- Experienced more efficient database management: 50-74%
- Improved application uptime & availability: 50-74%
Values their Couchbase application/deployment at up to 100 million.

Couchbase Customer Research

When asked how much they experienced more efficient database management since working with Couchbase, organizations said:

100%+: 11%

75%-100%: 23%

50-74%: 26%

25-49%: 23%

Up to 25%: 17%

Couchbase Customer Research

Why Developers Value Couchbase Over RDBMS

What Couchbase features do you value the most compared to your old RDBMS?

Flexible schema	71%
Full Text Search	64%
Kubernetes	50%
SQL++	43%
Analytics	36%
Memory-first architecture	36%
Mobile	36%
Auto sharding & rebalancing	21%
Cache	21%
XDCR	21%

Couchbase Customer Statistic

91% of surveyed IT organizations rated Couchbase’s Cloud migration as Better, compared to other solutions on the market.

91%

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Selected Research Highlights

Small Business Computer Software Company Improves Application Uptime & Availability Significantly with Couchbase

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About Couchbase

Global 500 Retail Company Increases Operational Efficiency by over 100% with Couchbase

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About Couchbase

Why Developers Value Couchbase Over RDBMS

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About Couchbase

Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform.