Case Study: AutoScout24 achieves 10x faster search and up to 5x lower capacity requirements with Elastic

AutoScout24 - Customer Case Study

AutoScout24, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, handles about 100 million search queries per day across thousands of requests per second. Facing persistent query latency and complexity with its previous Endeca-based search—on a revenue-generating e-commerce platform—AutoScout24 needed a cost-effective way to serve heavy peak traffic without sacrificing performance.

By migrating to Elasticsearch with Elastic training and support, AutoScout24 achieved at least 10x faster query responses, seamless handling of about 1 million daily updates and frequent index rebuilds, and a much simpler architecture. The rollout cut infrastructure needs (VMs down ~1/3, CPU cores reduced ~5x, reserved memory ~6x), provides capacity for more than 5x current peaks, lowered TCO, and accelerated time-to-market for new search features.

AutoScout24

Florentin Zorca

Lead Architect