Skyscanner uses Couchbase to cache live pricing data for flights and hotels to handle 2000 queries per second and 2 billion itineraries and quotes. They needed a database that provided consistency, horizontal scaling, elasticity, persistence, speed and resilience while being simple to use. While relational databases and data warehouses were no longer suitable, NoSQL databases like Couchbase with its map reduce and views capabilities met their requirements for scaling the live pricing cache in a changing technological environment.