Customer

This top 10 European banking and financial services company, is active across Europe, the USA and Asia-Pacific, and focuses on retail banking, corporate investments and global investments.

Business Challenge

This customer was looking for a caching and data replication platform integrated on top of an Oracle solution to build platform services for their trading and investment management system.

Specific Queries and analytics:

• Query stock price movement of specific sets of data, margin calculation, passed orders and support a highly flexible reporting tier in real-time from anywhere in the world
• Analytics for  market activity and customized reports

Technical Challenge

• Replicate data worldwide in near real-time latency for both backend and frontend systems
• Fast data access tier that could return customized queries in sub-second latency to the backend, frontend and the analytical engine simultaneously

Solution

With GigaSpaces’ in-memory real-time analytics platform and  GigaSpaces WAN Gateway, this customer was able to simply configure for multi-site replication and achieve real-time access and reporting on 15 days of data:

• ~ 22M objects
• 870M reads per day at < 1ms
• 70M writes/updates/removes per day at ~1ms
• 20M notifications

The solution also allowed for high availability at all times.

Results

• Real-time access and reporting on 15 days of data: ~ 22 M objects
• 870 M reads per day at < 1ms
• 70 M writes/updates/removes per day at ~1ms
• 20 M notifications
•  Zero downtime
• Simple configuration for multi-site replication
• Interaction with database: Data load + Persistency