Case Study: PhonePe achieves 99.999% uptime and sub-millisecond payments at scale with Aerospike

PhonePe achieves 99.999% uptime with Aerospike while processing 100M daily payments

PhonePe, a leading Indian fintech super app, faced significant challenges scaling its infrastructure to handle over 100 million daily transactions. Their legacy databases, including HBase, were unable to support real-time updates and fraud prevention, leading to frequent failures, costly downtime, and performance bottlenecks. They turned to the vendor Aerospike to build a fault-tolerant, low-latency data layer capable of managing their explosive growth.

By deploying Aerospike across multiple data centers, PhonePe achieved 99.999% uptime and sub-millisecond latency for fraud detection and feature store lookups. The solution from Aerospike provided an 8x reduction in server footprint, lowering costs, and enabled 5x higher throughput. This high-performance architecture ensured seamless, real-time payment processing at a massive scale for millions of users.

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