Case Study: France Billet achieves high availability and faster ticketing operations with MySQL Enterprise Edition

SAS boosts ticketing throughput 4x with MySQL

France Billet SAS, a ticketing platform for the FNAC-Darty chain, faced the challenge of ensuring high availability and scalability for its online ticket sales. The company needed a robust database solution to handle significant demand surges and guarantee seamless access for both consumers and B2B partners, where any downtime would have severe consequences. To meet this need, they implemented the MySQL Enterprise Edition from vendor MySQL.

The solution provided by MySQL involved deploying MySQL Enterprise Edition for its high transaction throughput and high availability features. This implementation, supported by MySQL Enterprise Monitoring and MySQL Enterprise Backup, resulted in a fourfold increase in transactions per second within two years. The measurable impacts included reducing backup times to as little as 12 minutes and ensuring continuous, fluid access to their ticketing platforms for all users.

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