Case Study: Japan’s foremost securities and investment bank achieves 1,000,000 TPS FX processing and 60× faster mark-to-market with Altibase

Altibase fortifies the company’s capabilities with the ability to transact at speeds of 1 million per second, increasing profitability and competitiveness

Japan’s Foremost Securities and Investment Bank, a leading global securities and investment firm, faced critical scalability and reliability issues as it expanded its FX trading platform internationally. The bank’s on-disk DBMS could not keep up with mission-critical streaming data (e.g., US employment reports), multi-device demand, or “always on” requirements. To address this, the bank adopted the IIJ Raptor Service that embedded Altibase’s hybrid architecture.

Altibase replaced the legacy database with a hybrid in-memory/on-disk deployment, added a high-speed IPC protocol and synchronous active-standby replication for HA, enabling 24/7 operation. As a result, the bank now processes over 1,000 FX TPS and granular data at more than 1,000,000 records per second (100× faster), performs mark-to-market 60× faster (60s → 1s), reduced operating costs by 10%, and attracted a surge of multi-device users via iOS/Android integration.