Aerospike Inc. ("Aerospike") announced that
Flipkart, India's homegrown e-commerce marketplace, sustained performance of
its in-house Aerospike database platform at a rate of 95 million transactions
per second (TPS) supporting its annual flagship, The Big Billion Days
(TBBD).
Flipkart
continues to set new benchmarks in e-commerce by transforming the way India
shops online during the festive season. To deliver a superior e-commerce
experience to the world's most populous nation, multiple application teams at
Flipkart leveraged Aerospike and its Kubernetes Operator, (Aerospike Kubernetes
Operator (AKO). This combination ensures low-latency, high-throughput database
operations at sustained performance levels rarely seen anywhere in the world,
powering use cases that require sub-millisecond query times.
Operational
Efficiency and Cost Optimization
By
automating database management and scaling with AKO, Flipkart optimizes
resource utilization, reducing infrastructure costs while efficiently handling
peak loads without overprovisioning. This ensures Flipkart delivers a
cost-effective, world-class e-commerce experience.
Global Availability
and High Resilience
Aerospike assures high
availability and resilience across distributed operations, which is critical
for a large-scale event. Aerospike empowers businesses to operate with
confidence, knowing their infrastructure can handle massive demand. AKO
enhances this with self-healing capabilities and built-in redundancy, ensuring
resilience in case of failure-critical for a seamless customer experience.
A Breakthrough for
Kubernetes in Hyperscale Data Operations
"While Kubernetes
initially rose to popularity for its ability to run stateless microservices,
Flipkart's success with the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator validates the use of
the container orchestration system for operating durable data platforms at
hyperscale," said Srini Srinivasan, PhD., CTO & Founder of Aerospike. "The
achievements of Flipkart are incredible - there are very few companies in the
world that work on this level of transactional throughput."
The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator continues to rapidly grow across customers in all
sectors and geographies. In the last 12 months, Aerospike has added
capabilities to AKO, making it easier to automate all aspects of operating,
upgrading, backing up and restoring, and scaling up and down database
clusters.