Case Study: Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service achieves real-time legislative responsiveness and high-performance stability with Altibase

KCOMWEL switched from Sybase to Altibase for all of its core services, fortifying it with real time legislative controls, accounting and analytics

Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service (KCOMWEL), South Korea’s government agency for social security and labor welfare, struggled with a legacy Sybase DBMS that could not keep up with frequent legislative changes, suffered hardware saturation and obsolescence, and mixed heavy batch accounting/analytics with real-time online services—causing frequent slowdowns and failures. KCOMWEL chose Altibase and its hybrid DBMS (in-memory and on-disk) to address these core challenges.

Altibase deployed its hybrid technology in 2010, centralizing applications, fee collection, treatment and compensation into a single DBMS and adding a second replicated Altibase instance to isolate batch accounting and analytics from daily online operations; the solution runs on a 160‑core HP Superdome handling 2,300 tables and roughly 5.5 TB of data with 600 GB RAM. As a result, Altibase delivered stable, high‑performance operations, real‑time responsiveness to legislative changes, elimination of batch-related outages, and improved analytics and preparedness for future policy updates.

Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service