Case Study: Sabre achieves real-time, high-throughput airline inventory (handling 50% of transactions) with Actian's Versant Object Database

Versant is the database behind innovative technology solutions for the Travel Industry

Sabre Holdings, a global leader in the travel marketplace, needed a scalable open-system solution to provide real-time airline inventory for Travelocity and other sites. Facing massive transactional throughput for origination-and-destination processing, Sabre sought to move off an expensive proprietary IBM TPF mainframe to an object-oriented design because relational databases could not meet performance and complexity demands.

Sabre deployed the Versant Object Database, which delivered the performance and object-model flexibility required and was operational within days. The Versant-based system’s small hardware footprint supports massive transaction volumes and now handles about 50% of Sabre’s transactional traffic across 30 airlines, providing reliable real-time inventory.

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