Case Study: Top 3 Global Brokerage Company achieves real-time margin lending and lower intraday risk with Aerospike

Growing Margin Lending while Reducing Intraday Trading Risk in Real-time

Top 3 Global Brokerage Company, one of the world’s top three brokerages, needed to support more than 10 million customers, 250 million daily transactions, and rapid mobile growth, but its legacy RDBMS and RAM-based cache were overloaded, slow to restart, and prone to data inconsistency. The firm also wanted to move customer-facing margin lending and trading functions from batch to real time, and turned to Aerospike to help replace its unreliable intraday architecture.

Aerospike implemented a flash-based, real-time data layer and operational data store that offloaded the mainframe, unified read/write access, and kept data consistent across systems. The result was a 10-server Aerospike cluster replacing a 150-server caching layer, delivering a 90% TCO reduction, saving $10,000 per day, and enabling over 13 billion queries per day with 99.9% of requests returned in sub-milliseconds, while supporting real-time margin loans for over 14 million accounts.