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CHALLENGES

Cost, reliability, and performance challenges

Couchbase addresses SQL Server's challenges with easier scaling, enhanced performance for large data and joins, and streamlined replication and failover for efficient management.

CHALLENGE #1
Scale fail

Complex sharding, costly hardware upgrades, and intricate performance tuning make scaling difficult.

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CHALLENGE #2
Poor performance

Large data, complex joins, and heavy read-writes often lead to performance issues.

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CHALLENGE #3
Replication and failover

Complex setup, resource-intensive management, and potential synchronization issues increase risk.

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FEATURES

Key features of Couchbase vs. SQL Server

  • What’s included
  • SQL
  • ACID transactions
  • Schema flexibility
  • Horizontal scaling
  • Automatic replication
  • Built-in caching
  • Multi-model support
  • Mobile and edge sync
  • Automatic sharding
  • Multi-dimensional scaling
  • Database logic
  • REST management API
  • Couchbase
  • Eventing, UDF
  • SQL Server
  • Limited native sharding, complex
  • Sprocs, triggers, views
CUSTOMERS

Success stories: From SQL Server to Couchbase

  • “Couchbase Full-Text Search allows us to deliver customer search results from extremely large datasets very efficiently.”
    Brant Burnett, Systems Architect, CenterEdge Software
    1,000+ accounts
    20+ years serving the entertainment industry
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  • “We looked at multiple NoSQL options including MongoDB and Cassandra, and we really liked the architecture of Couchbase.”
    Kris Alexander, Platform Architecture Lead, Gannett
    75% reduction in licensing fees
    140 million digital audience served each month
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  • “Couchbase Server provides a flexible data model, including full-text search integration, on which we can develop highly dynamic interactive applications.”
    75,000+ indexed and ranked articles, videos, images
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Code snippet

SQL++: Full SQL features with JOINs, CTEs, CRUD, like T-SQL


SELECT u.name, AVG(o.total) AS avgOrderTotal
FROM users u
JOIN orders o ON u.userId = META(o).id
WHERE u.membershipLevel = 'Gold' AND u.status = 'active'
GROUP BY u.name


SELECT u.Name, AVG(o.Total) AS AvgOrderTotal
FROM Users u
JOIN Orders o ON u.UserId = o.UserId
WHERE u.MembershipLevel = 'Gold' AND u.Status = 'active'
GROUP BY u.Name
SQL to NoSQL: Automated migration

Migrating from SQL Server to Couchbase: Key strategies and tools.

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Resources

Learn more about how Couchbase compares to SQL Server

Documentation
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Concepts
Distributed ACID transactions for NoSQL applications
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Data migration from RDBMS to Couchbase
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