Case Study: eBay achieves massive scalability and high-performance NoSQL (80B calls/day) with Couchbase

ebay Transitioning from Oracle to NoSQL

ebay, a global e-commerce leader connecting millions of buyers and sellers, was running thousands of Oracle databases to support its large-scale marketplace. Over time the company found Oracle costly and ill-suited for many use cases—paying for features it didn’t need while missing performance and scalability required to keep up with growth—so it sought a more affordable, high-throughput approach and often used caching in front of Oracle to scale applications.

ebay migrated a significant portion of workloads to Couchbase NoSQL, using it as both a key-value store and document database to deliver high read/write performance, horizontal scalability, and simpler maintenance. Couchbase’s N1QL eased developer migration from SQL to JSON, and the move enabled ebay to double its Couchbase use cases, expand Couchbase nodes fivefold, and handle about 80 billion Couchbase calls per day, while benefiting from fast self-healing and reduced Oracle load.

eBay

John Kanagaraj

Global Data Infrastructure