About Sky
50%
reduction in sign-in time
Challenges
- Overcome limitations of legacy Oracle RDBMS to offer seamless viewing experience during massive peaks like Game of Thrones
- Quickly create and update products (e.g., Sky Go and Sky Online) to add new customers
- Distribute traffic load and implement DR
Outcomes
- Unmatchable performance at scale ensures superior user experience
- Flexible data model supports faster time to market for new products
- Ease of maintenance and scaling lowered capital and ops costs
- XDCR transfers data to multiple datacenters, reducing sign-in time by 50% and dropping recovery time from hours to minutes
There are many key factors that made us choose Couchbase: scalability, high availability, XDCR, flexible schema, and advanced monitoring, to name a few.
Krishnan Venkatasubramanian Head of IT Architecture, Sky
Industry
Use case
- User profile store
- Authentication
Product
Key features
- SQL++
- Multi-dimensional scaling
- Cross datacenter replication
- In-memory database