Case Study: Mercado Libre achieves ~25× lower latency (50 ms → ~2 ms) with NetApp SolidFire

Speeding up E-Commerce with Flash

MercadoLibre, the leading e‑commerce marketplace in Latin America operating in 13 countries, faced slow, unpredictable storage performance in its OpenStack private cloud—impacting MySQL and MongoDB workloads and making it hard to meet strict latency, scalability, and replication requirements for a 24/7 online marketplace.

The company deployed NetApp SolidFire’s scale‑out all‑flash storage with native OpenStack integration, QoS controls, inline deduplication/compression, thin provisioning, and array‑based replication. The solution delivered predictable, granular scaling and immediate gains: latency dropped from ~50 ms to ~2 ms, data was reduced by 6.5× (shrinking footprint and power), and MercadoLibre achieved nondisruptive growth and reliable performance.

Mercado Libre

Mariano Guelar

Storage Specialist