Case Study: A Fortune 100 company achieves secure, scalable enterprise cryptographic key and certificate management with ArangoDB

Enterprise Level Digital Certificate and Cryptographic Key Management with ArangoDB

Fortune 100 Company faced an enterprise‑level digital certificate and cryptographic key management challenge: secure storage and delivery, multi‑tier access control, massive scalability and recoverability, real‑time performance with effectively zero downtime, and the ability to map relationships between data to arbitrary depth across many, many thousands of keys and certificates. The organization determined a NoSQL multi‑model database was required and engaged ArangoDB to meet these complex requirements.

ArangoDB was deployed as the Source of Truth—using its multi‑model capabilities (document + graph), AQL for complex queries, clustering for fault tolerance, and Foxx microservices—integrated with the company’s registration authority, CAs and HSMs. The solution centralized certificate and key associations, automated notifications for renewals/rotations, enabled blazing‑fast, real‑time access, and scaled to handle the thousands of cryptographic objects and workflows, substantially reducing tedious manual tasks and delivering a robust, highly available enterprise service.