TechValidate Research on Couchbase

Introduction

This case study of DePauw is based on an October 2020 survey of Couchbase customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Experienced the following challenges prior to implementing Couchbase:
  • Scaling
  • Performance
  • Replication
• Considered the following vendors before choosing Couchbase:
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Datastax

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:
  • Mainframe offload
  • XDCR
• Is storing 1 – 10 million documents in Couchbase.
• Is storing 1 – 10 TB of data in Couchbase.
• Is running 500k – 1M requests/operations per second in Couchbase.
• Describes their Couchbase deployment:
  • Clusters: 10-50
  • Nodes: 10-50

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Couchbase:

• Saw returned value within 12+ months after implementing Couchbase.
• Rates the following improvements since working with Couchbase:
  • Lowered total cost of ownership: up to 25%
  • Increased query performance: 25-49%
  • Increased operational efficiency: up to 25%
  • Accelerated development cycles: up to 25%
  • Accelerated response times: 25-49%
  • Experienced a more efficient help desk: 25-49%
  • Experienced more efficient database management: 25-49%
  • Improved application uptime & availability: 25-49%
• Values their Couchbase application/deployment as priceless.
• Rated Couchbase as 5/5 stars.

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking 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.

Challenges

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

*Needed a “cache database” to improve the performance of many transactions, and mobile app transactions

• Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Couchbase:
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL

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
  • Cache
  • Memory-first architecture
• 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: up to 10
  • Nodes: up to 10

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Couchbase:

• Rates the following improvements since working with Couchbase:
  • Increased query performance: 100%+
  • Increased operational efficiency: 100%+
  • Accelerated response times: 100%+
  • Improved application uptime & availability: 100%+