Case Study: Ticketmaster achieves 400% scalability with MySQL

Ticketmaster.com Migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL and Improved Scalability by 400%

Ticketmaster, a leading event ticketing company, faced significant scalability and stability challenges with its Microsoft SQL Server database, which struggled to handle high-traffic demands during peak ticket sales. The vendor, MySQL, was selected to provide a more robust database solution to re-architect their website infrastructure and support their rapid growth.

The solution implemented by MySQL involved migrating the core Event database to MySQL on a LAMP stack. This migration resulted in a 400% improvement in scalability, allowing Ticketmaster to host four times more events and venues. The vendor, MySQL, enabled near real-time replication across 250 servers with latency under one second, ensuring high performance and data integrity during critical sales periods.

Ticketmaster

Ed Presz

Sr. Director of Database Engineering