Case Study: BookMyShow achieves zero downtime and scalable high performance with Ignite Technologies’ ScaleArc

Alearc Provides Higher Availability And Performance For Ticketing Website

BookMyShow, India’s largest entertainment ticketing portal, was losing sales and suffering poor performance when blockbuster releases and major events sent traffic surging to its site (in.bookmyshow.com). The company needed a rapidly deployable solution that would scale its SQL database layer, ensure zero downtime during peak events, and do so without requiring changes to its applications. To address this, BookMyShow turned to Ignite Technologies and its ScaleArc database load‑balancing product.

Ignite Technologies deployed ScaleArc transparently between BookMyShow’s applications and SQL servers, adding connection pooling, load balancing and in‑memory caching. The result was immediate: zero downtime during peak events, an immediate boost in database capacity to absorb traffic bursts, and a 30% cache rate for frequent queries with no application changes. Ignite Technologies’ ScaleArc enabled higher availability and better performance, allowing BookMyShow to handle over 400 million page views per month and eliminate SQL connection surge outages.

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