Unified eCommerce Product Catalog

The Idea

Unified eCommerce Product Catalog is an eCommerce system based on Java. It was originally developed as NoSQL-based eCommerce data model repository for processing large amount of eCommerce-specific data: product, category, price, and inventory.

Unified eCommerce Product Catalog is organized on the concept of one aggregated product entity connected with multiple supplier/vendor offers (inventory, prices, shipping options) and multiple content providers (product description. attributes, languages and etc)

Additionally it provides a built-in highly-optimized object-oriented Java API for easy and seamless integration with third-party solutions

A high level overview

The main goal of the UCS system is to provide platform for building E-Commerce Catalog-based services with high entity management operations performance (~above hundred millions transactions/operations per second in average)

It is oriented for eCommerce systems usually use search/query/get much frequently than update/modify operations with data stored in their persistence to get more benefit from in-memory storage

Main insights

  • all data is stored in RAM
  • all changes are fleshed into persistence store
  • few predefined set of entities and their relations are supported: Product, Product Content, Product Identity, Product Variation Family, Attribute, Category, Category Tree, Offer, Channel, Owner
  • data persistence can be done by traditional RDBMS or non-RDBMS database (like PostgreSQL or MongoDB)
  • access through object-oriented API
  • transactions only on single operation level

Architecture

UCS-Architecture

 

SETRONICA


Setronica is a software engineering company that provides a wide range of services, from software products to core business applications. We offer consulting, development, testing, infrastructure support, and cloud management services to enterprises. We apply the knowledge, skills, and Agile methodology of project management to integrate software development and business objectives effectively and efficiently.