The document discusses how NoSQL databases like Couchbase are increasingly being used by companies for applications that have modern requirements like scalability, flexibility with data structures, and ease of management. It provides several examples of large companies like Gannett, Marriott, and CenterEdge that have moved key systems from SQL databases to Couchbase to gain performance, scalability, and cost benefits. The document also outlines Couchbase's open source heritage and key features.

1. NoSQL – the Vital Open Source
Ingredient for Modern Success
Arun Gupta
VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
@arungupta
arun@couchbase.com

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Who am I?

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The Big Picture:
Companies across
industries are “going
digital” in a big way

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The shift to digital is driving new database requirements

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How much unstructured data?
90%
When connected and used properly, such information
typically can help increase revenue, reduce costs,
respond to customer needs more quickly and accurately,
or bring products to market faster
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Responsive Scalable Agile
Mobile Geo-­‐distributed Easy to Manage
Requirements for modern web, mobile & IoT applications

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NoSQL is often a better fit for web, mobile & IoT applications
RDBMS NoSQL
1960’s -­‐ 1970’s origin Mid-­‐2000’s origin
Mainframe / Client-­‐Server era Internet / Mobile / Big Data era
Rigid schema Flexible
Structured data Structured, semi-­‐structured, unstructured
Scale up Scale out

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Origin and evolution of NoSQL
2000
2003
2004-2006
2008
2009
2011
Releases Couchbase
Server
2012
Merger of
CouchOne (CouchDB) &
Membase (memcached)

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Who’s using NoSQL?
Internet companies were the originators and early adopters.

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Who’s using NoSQL?
Today, NoSQL is mainstream!
Industrial Equipment
Internet of Things
Communications Hospitality Airlines Financial Services
Customer Data Mgmt Reservation Systems Mobile Application Fraud Detection
Tax Preparation Media Metadata Mgmt Content Mgmt System Product Catalog
Theme Park
Customer Service
Streaming Media Publishing Retail EntertainmentBusiness Services

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NoSQL at Gannett: Re-­‐engineering the CMS

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Gannett: Challenges of RDBMS
• SQL Server is extremely expensive
• Utilize on-­‐premise pet servers that have difficulty
scaling
• Significant replication latency issue with SQL Server
• Business logic coded into Stored Procedures
• Causes significant delay between publish time and presentation time

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Gannett: Transition Goals
• Decrease the latency between publish time and
presentation time
• Remove business logic from data layer
• Allow for growth and scalability in the cloud
• Move away from pet servers
• Lower cost – Couchbase operates at 25% of RBDMS

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Gannett: Replatforming with NoSQL
Before After
NoSQL
NoSQL

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How Gannett used to retrieve an asset

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How Gannett now retrieves an asset

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Couchbase and Gannett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mor2p0UqZ14
Couchbase has become an
integral part of GANNETT’s next
generation publishing systems

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NoSQL at Marriott: Moving from mainframe to distributed
Leading international hotel
provider with 4,200+ properties
in 79 countries
Replatforming from
mainframe-­‐based DB2/Z to
distributed architecture

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Marriott: Why replatform?
• Moving from legacy to distributed
• Skill sets available
• Open source
• Application development cost savings
• Infrastructure cost savings
• Leverage cloud strategy
• Data-­‐driven logic vs embedded rules logic

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Marriott: Why Open Source and NoSQL?
• Well suited for cloud deployment on commodity
hardware
• Scalability and High Availability
• Taking advantage of the myriad of Open Standards
vs Proprietary Vendor Solutions
• Native JSON processing
• Couchbase: N1QL, LDAP integration, Filtered XDCR,
Service scaling

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Couchbase at Marriott
Marriott Data Center
Compute Cluster Couchbase Cluster
MARSHAMARSHA
JSON DocumentsReservation Data
Internal UsersInternal Users
§ 13 Million Documents in Couchbase
§ 200 Transactions/Second
Initial Deployment
§ 30 Million Documents in Couchbase
§ 4000 Transactions/Second
Future Rollout

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NoSQL at CenterEdge Software
Leading provider of facility
management for amusement &
entertainment industries:
Family Entertainment Centers
Waterparks
Trampoline Parks
Amusement Parks
Skating Rinks
Bowling Centers
Zoos & Museums
Replacing RDBMS with NoSQL
for better scalability and
reliability in the cloud

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We knew that we needed to re-­‐architect and move to something
that didn’t involve SQL at all. The vertical scaling of SQL is
just very limiting.
We had a bunch of SQL Serversup in the cloud serving up the
web stores. That basically melted on a Black Friday
Why NoSQL at CenterEdge: Avoid “Black Friday meltdown”
http://diginomica.com/2015/10/15/how-­‐centeredge-­‐went-­‐from-­‐black-­‐friday-­‐blues-­‐to-­‐cloud-­‐scale-­‐with-­‐couchbase/
more cost savings will be achieved as SQL database contracts
are phased out

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Why NoSQL at CenterEdge: Avoid “Black Friday meltdown”
http://diginomica.com/2015/10/15/how-­‐centeredge-­‐went-­‐from-­‐black-­‐friday-­‐blues-­‐to-­‐cloud-­‐scale-­‐with-­‐couchbase/
• Using Couchbase since 1.8, originally for caching,
now for persistence as well
Couchbase has enabled us to do this far more easily than we
ever could have, compared to trying to deal with large SQL
servers and dividing it up and partitioning data… Unlike SQL
Server, as we grow, we just add nodes. We need another
node, we’d spin one up. Zero down time.

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NoSQL lines of influence
(Columns, Consistent)
(Values, Available)
Consistent
Documents
(Values)
Wide Column
Available
(Columns, Available) (Documents, Consistent)

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Couchbase’s Open Source heritage
ForestDB
(CouchOne) (Membase)
2011:
CouchOne & Membase merge to
form Couchbase
2014:
Couchbase releases ForestDB storage
engine as Open Source project
2015:
Couchbase releases Couchbase Server 4.0,
leveraging bleve open source project for
search

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Couchbase is Open Source -­‐ Apache 2.0 license

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Couchbase lines of influence
(Columns, Consistent)
(Values, Available)
(Documents, Consistent)
Consistent
Documents
(Values)
(In-­‐Memory)

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Choose how to build your apps, and where to run them
Frameworks
Languages
Platforms
Infrastructure
C / C++
Mobile
Mobile
Couchbase supports a wide range of frameworks, languages, platforms, and infrastructure choices

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Couchbase integrates with the Big Data ecosystem
Business Intelligence
Offline Analytics
Storage
Search Streaming Analytics
Messaging

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Couchbase can be deployed for multiple purposes
High availability
cache
Key-­‐value
store
Document
database
Embedded
database
(mobile devices)
Sync
management

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Key capabilities in Couchbase
Query Index Search Scale Replicate

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N1QL (“nickel”) query language = SQL for JSON data
Query Index Search Scale Replicate

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Global Secondary Indexing – fast, efficient indexes
Query Index Search Scale Replicate

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Geospatial search
Query Index Search Scale Replicate

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Multi-­‐Dimensional Scaling: Isolate query, index, read-­‐write
Query Index Search Scale Replicate

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Cross data center replication (XDCR) with filtering
Query Index Search Scale Replicate

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Summary
§ Why Open Source?
– More choice, More flexibility, Less risk, Lower cost
§ Why NoSQL?
– Flexible data model, Structured & Un-­‐structured data, Scale-­‐out architecture
§ Why Couchbase?
– Performance, Availability, Scalability, Flexibility, Ease of Use

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Want to know more?
Download Couchbase: couchbase.com/download
Developer Portal: developer.couchbase.com
Free online training: training.couchbase.com/online

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Questions?

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Thank You.
@arungupta
arun@couchbase.com