Couchbase Mobile in RetailZack Gramana

About Me

Zack Gramana

Senior Mobile Software

Engineer

@zgramana

Who is Couchbase?

Couchbase at a Glance

Fastest growing NoSQL

database company

4x growth in 2013

Mission critical use at

Internet scale

400+ customers; 10,000+ paid

production nodes deployed;

worldwide customer base

Leader in scalability &

performance

Easily & reliable scale your app;

Get consistent low latency &

high throughput

Worldwide operations

with 250+ employees

100+ in engineering; Offices in US,

UK, India, Japan, China (soon)

Enterprise Customers

> 400 customers; > 10,000 production nodes deployed

Services and Consumer Enterprises

What is the business problem?

Today’s Mobile Apps

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Try again later.

No Internet

please wait…

How does this affect what people think about your app?

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Doesn’t work a lot of the time and when

it does it’s slow.

How does this affect application uninstall rates?

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0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Un

insta

ll R

ate

Freezing

Crashing

Slow Responsiveness

Source: uSamp

Data Location is the Problem

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Local Data + Sync is the Solution

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What does this mean for your apps?

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Always work both online & offline

Always be blazing fast

Built with orders of magnitude less code

Users will absolutely love your apps

What is Couchbase Mobile?

Couchbase Lite Sync Gateway

Couchbase Lite

NoSQL mobile database.

Runs in-process.

Small footprint.

Document-Oriented Database

o Key-value collections, with versioning

o Schemaless

o Code fast. Run fast

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o Build indexes in your native language

o Results are persisted for fast querying

o Just set breakpoints to debug!

MapReduce Indexes

o Listen/Observe for changes.

o Databases, queries, replications—even documents.

o Cuts down done on a ton of cruft code.

Change Notifications

doc.Change += (sender, e) => {

if (e.Change.IsConflict){

// well then resolve it!}

};

Sync

o Full multi-master replication.

o Continuous or ad-hoc in either direction.

o Change notifications & conflict detection.

Cocoapods

Maven Central

Nuget

Github

o Authentication

o Authorization

o Data orchestration

Sync Gateway

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o requireUser (username)

o requireRole (rolename)

o requireAccess (channels)

Sync Function

o channel (name)

o access (username, channelname)

o role (username, rolename)

Sync Function

Retail Industry Challenges

Retail Industry Mobile Challenges

“81% of smartphone users

have done product

research via smartphone

and 50% have made a

purchase with one.”

Increase Sales

Retail Industry Mobile Challenges

“It's still about speed and

convenience”Increase Sales

Retail Industry Mobile Challenges

“40% of customers believe

it is very important to be

able to purchase from a

retailer from different

channels.”

Improve Customer

Engagement

Retail Industry Mobile Challenges

How well do users rate

your presence in the

mobile app stores?

Brand Awareness

Solutions

Ship Ready-To-Run

Pre-load your app’s database

Cross-sell/Up-sell

Modeling cross-sell/up-sell

recommendations

Enhancing the in-store experience

Enable

customer/retailer

collaboration

Enable social sharing

Seamlessly Scale

Star

TieredDeployment Topologies

Star Topology

Tiered Topology

Next Steps

Couchbase Developer Portal

developer.couchbase.com/mobile

Forums

forums.couchbase.com

Mailing List

groups.google.com/d/forum/mobile-

couchbase

Contact Me

zack@couchbase.com (email)

@zgramana (twitter)

Questions and Answers