Case Study: Intuit achieves real-time, high-performance website analytics with MongoDB

Intuit - Customer Case Study

Intuit Websites helps small businesses build and host sites, and wanted to collect and analyze traffic from more than 500,000 customer sites to recommend conversion and lead-generation improvements. Existing tools (Google Analytics, Omniture), relational databases and a Hadoop option either lacked needed detail, were slow—taking days to process 10 years of data—or added unwanted complexity, and analytics data was scattered across multiple sources.

Intuit built a MongoDB-based analytics platform that unified data, delivered real-time aggregation, and sped development—producing a working prototype in one week. Benchmarks showed MongoDB wrote 2.5× faster than MySQL and improved overall read/write performance, enabling more frequent deployments, faster reporting, and actionable insights that help Intuit’s customers grow their businesses.

Intuit

Nirmala Ranganathan

Intuit