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PayPal - Payment processing and big data integration at massive scale with Couchbase

In 2013, PayPal, a global leader in online payments solutions, took on NoSQL for several use cases. They initially leveraged Couchbase for their Media Network Advertising pipeline and applied Couchbase to build cross-channel audience analytics in profiling, segmentation, identity mapping and more. By 2014, the company was managing over 1 billion documents and 10 terabytes of data with Couchbase. PayPal extended Couchbase use into analytics for user information, processing millions of updates a minute in conjunction with Kafka and Hadoop.

About PayPal

1 billion

documents

10 terabytes

of data

Millions

updates per minute

Challenges

    • Provide business users with real time reports and visualizations of user interaction data
    • Collect web and mobile clickstream in real time
    • Integrate with other big data technologies (Hadoop and Storm)
    • Provide views of data across multiple dimensions (e.g., time, location, browser and device types)

Outcomes

    • Generates views for business users in under 1 minute, based on 10-minute data collection intervals
    • Real time performance, easy integration with Storm and Hadoop
    • Ingests data from multiple inputs, including mobile, web, and other services
    • Processes millions of updates a minute
As the operational data store, Couchbase is easily capable of processing tens of millions of updates a day, or more. Streaming through Kafka into Hadoop, these key events are turned into business insight and that’s why we are very excited about Couchbase.

Anil Madan Senior Director of Engineering, PayPal

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  • Mobile wallet
  • Operational dashboarding

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