Online marketplace Snapdeal.com has deployed MongoDB’s scalable database to manage its product catalogue. The New Delhi-based company expects the association to help customers to choose from over four million products across 500 categories and 30,000 sellers.

“With 25 million members, Snapdeal is the largest online marketplace in the country and is contributing to India’s growth story in the e-commerce industry. Our document data model provides Snapdeal with a responsive and consistent platform that will enable them to provide more up-to-date and relevant product catalogues as well as better experience to their customers,” said Kamal Brar, General Manager, Asia Pacific at MongoDB.

Among the Fortune 500 and Global 500, MongoDB customers include 10 of the top retailers such as eBay.

“Due to the nature of our business, we produce large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Therefore, we require a platform that can store various product types in a single database, to make it easy for us to add new products as well as adapt to market demands. MongoDB’s database provides us with the architecture which will help us to optimise our performance,” said Amitabh Misra, vice president (engineering) at Snapdeal.com.

In India, the e-commerce space is growing at a rapid pace. According to an Assocham report, India’s e-commerce market was worth about $2.5 billion in 2009, it went up to $6.3 billion in 2011 and to $16 billion in 2013 and is expected to touch whopping $56 billion by 2023 which will be 6.5 per cent of the total retail market.

>rajesh.kurup@thehindu.co.in

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