TechValidate Research on Couchbase


Couchbase Case Study

A Federal Government Customer Significantly Lowers Total Cost of Ownership with Couchbase

Introduction

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

“Couchbase is a solution that covers a lot of use cases and a lot of services, such as cache, ETL, event management. Moreover, its administration is simplified by ergonomic interfaces.”

“In three words: EASY (for former sql developers), ERGONOMIC (administration interfaces) and FASTER.”

Challenges

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

  • Experienced the following challenges prior to implementing Couchbase:
    • Performance
    • Replication
  • Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Couchbase:
    • MongoDB
    • Oracle
    • Cassandra
    • Postgres

Use Case

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

  • Values the following Couchbase features compared to other solutions they have used:
    • Mobile capabilities
    • SQL++
  • Is storing 50 – 500 million documents in Couchbase.
  • Describes their Couchbase deployment:
    • Clusters: up to 10
    • Nodes: up to 10

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Couchbase:

  • Rates the following improvements since working with Couchbase:
    • Lowered total cost of ownership: 50-74%
    • Increased query performance: 75%-100%
    • Increased operational efficiency: 75%-100%
    • Accelerated development cycles: 50-74%
    • Accelerated response times: 75%-100%
    • Experienced a more efficient help desk: 75%-100%
    • Experienced more efficient database management: 50-74%
    • Improved application uptime & availability: 50-74%




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Couchbase by TechValidate.

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