Case Study: RunKeeper achieves scalable, high-performance data management with IBM Cloudant Dedicated Cluster

Shaping up with lean administration and superior user experience

RunKeeper, a fitness app company with over 30 million users, faced a major scalability challenge with its existing PostgreSQL database. This single-server system created performance bottlenecks and was a single point of failure, threatening to halt their growth. To overcome this, RunKeeper turned to vendor IBM for a solution, ultimately implementing IBM Cloudant Dedicated Cluster.

The IBM solution provided a fully managed, cloud-based database that could easily handle high volumes of data and user traffic. This eliminated performance issues, removed the need for a dedicated database administrator, and provided seamless scalability. As a result, RunKeeper was able to reassign a team member to focus on user experience and ensure their service could grow without being constrained by its database layer.

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Joe Bondi

CTO and Co-founder