Case Studies
India’s Ecommerce Powerhouse Snapdeal Sees Immediate Payoff with Aerospike
Overview
Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services | |
E-Commerce | |
Business Operation Sales & Marketing | |
Inventory Management Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS) | |
Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration | |
Operational Impact
In-memory Aerospike database maintains sub-millisecond latency on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) while managing 100 million-plus objects stored in DRAM to support real-time dynamic pricing. | |
Predictable low latency with 95-99% of transactions completing within 10 milliseconds—essential for enabling a responsive customer experience. | |
Aerospike’s highly efficient use of resources enables Snapdeal to cost effectively deploy in Amazon EC2. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Snapdeal scaled from 2 million to 150 million records. | |
Reads per second increased from 10,000 to 30,000. | |
Writes per second increased from 30 to 500. | |