Case Study: Samsung Electronics achieves nonstop global authentication for 100M users with Altibase hybrid in-memory/on-disk database on AWS

Samsung Electronics - Customer Case Study

Samsung Electronics, a global leader in electronics, faced recurring outages and irretrievable data loss with its Oracle Coherence–based back end that supported the “Samsung Apps” global authentication service on Amazon EC2 (AWS). The failures caused hours-long downtime for nearly 100 million users, hurting acquisition, retention and market penetration. To meet its need for high-velocity real-time authentication plus large-volume historical storage, Samsung deployed Altibase’s hybrid architecture (an in-memory and on-disk unified engine) on AWS for cloud authentication.

Altibase’s solution — running on Amazon EC2 since 2013 — delivers high-performance in-memory access for hot data, unified on-disk storage for cold data, strict ACID compliance and built-in active‑active replication for HA. The result is stable, non-stop global authentication for 100M+ users, elimination of data loss and downtime, reduced system resources and lower TCO, and measurable business benefits including more app users, higher profitability and revenue growth; Samsung Pay also leverages this Altibase service for authentication.

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