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WHY COUCHBASE

Product Catalog Management in a NoSQL Distributed Database

Couchbase’s real-time data processing, flexible data models, and scalable architecture together with edge capabilities, mobile integration, and rapid caching enable the personalized and responsive experiences modern retailers seek for their customers.

Flexible structure

Efficiently manage diverse product data to enable swift inventory updates and optimize real-time insights.

Real-time speeds

Speed up data access, boost performance, and reduce latency with caching and in-memory processing of the most popular products.

GenAI-ready

Use vector search with AI in product catalogs for more precise and relevant queries that dramatically improve accessibility and personalization for shoppers.

Secure data

Safeguard transaction data and real-time interactions with robust encryption, access controls, and compliance capabilities.

Product Catalog

Top product catalog use cases

Couchbase powers catalogs, inventory and customer interactions across industries.

Retail

Easily support price and promotions, stocking, shopping cart, supply chain, new products, inventory, and real-time pricing for tens of millions of products in stores and online.

Media and entertainment

Display digital entertainment options from multiple providers in different formats while providing personalized experiences and 100% uptime for users.

Travel and hospitality

Use dynamic digital catalogs with time- and inventory-sensitive data to support reservations, preferences, and loyalty programs for millions of travelers.

Field service

Give field service reps remote access to data so they can place orders and manage sales in stores, with or without internet connectivity.

“Our strategy is to build an enterprise-grade service powered by Couchbase that provides consistent and accurate information to the customers.”
Pavan Kumar, Manager, Software Engineering & Architecture, Staples, Inc.
$8B total revenue
950+ total stores
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“Switching to Capella has been a no-brainer from my point of view. I know Couchbase can handle whatever scale we need. It’s a really powerful tool.”
Ian Merrington, CTO, Seenit
500K+ videos stored
75K+ users
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“Our digital showroom completely reimagines the traditional buying approach and establishes a new fashion industry benchmark for business-to-business sales.”
Daniel Grieder, CEO, Tommy Hilfiger
66% reduction in buying trip duration
80% cut in sample production
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“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
50% reduction in sign-in time
22M subscribers
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Product catalog management FAQs

Get answers to the most common questions about using NoSQL distributed databases for product catalogs.

  • Why use a NoSQL database for product catalogs?

    NoSQL databases excel at managing varied and unstructured data. Their scalability and flexibility are ideal for integrating new sources into a catalog of product content.

  • Why is JSON the preferred format for catalogs?

    Product information is dynamic and needs regular attention due to pricing changes, diminishing inventory, or AI-powered product description management and creation.

  • What challenges come with NoSQL for adaptive catalogs?

    Challenges include maintaining data consistency as product information changes. Synchronizing data across diverse systems and mobile devices adds complexity.

  • How does NoSQL handle scalability and performance?

    NoSQL product catalog databases use distributed architectures to scale out across multiple servers, supporting the large data volumes and high throughput crucial for processing diverse customer 360 datasets.

  • What about data security and privacy concerns?

    Couchbase offerings secure data in transit and at rest, and process ACID transactions for JSON, which ensures purchases are complete.

  • How do NoSQL DBs integrate with enterprise apps?

    NoSQL databases offer robust APIs and connectors for integration with enterprise applications, including inventory systems, employee scheduling systems and customer 360 analytic environments.

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