Case Study: Rakuten France achieves real-time AI protection against scrapers, DDoS, and bandwidth/time savings with DataDome

Rakuten France Is Protected Against Real-time Attacks Thanks to DataDome’s AI

Rakuten France, the leading French marketplace (17M members, ~19M hits/month and 600,000 new ads/day), was struggling with increasingly sophisticated scrapers and layer‑7 DDoS-style automated traffic that consumed bandwidth and required heavy manual intervention. To stop ongoing scraping and real‑time attacks, Rakuten evaluated and engaged DataDome’s AI‑based real‑time bot protection.

DataDome deployed an AI solution that compares each request against a large in‑memory pattern database and uses behavioral analysis to block bad bots in under 2 ms. The implementation offloaded daily bot management, stopped destructive scraping and real‑time attacks, preserved bandwidth, and eliminated time‑consuming manual IP blocks; Rakuten now monitors traffic via a clear dashboard and email reports and rates DataDome 4.5/5.

Rakuten

Patrick Pereira

Technical Director