Case Study: Hotelbeds achieves 4.5x faster bookings, eliminates downtime, and saves 20% on database administration with Oracle

Hotelbeds Enables Clients to Book Four to Five Times Faster, Eliminates Downtime, and Saves 20% on Database Administration Costs

Hotelbeds, the world’s leading accommodation wholesaler serving travel agencies, tour operators, airlines and OTAs, works with over 72,000 hotels in 180 countries and handles billions of searches annually. To sustain double-digit growth it needed better database performance and scalability (5x more user calls, 4,000 requests/sec, 300% I/O increase) while eliminating planned and unplanned downtime and reducing operating costs.

By deploying Oracle Exadata, WebLogic Server 12c, Coherence and GoldenGate, Hotelbeds cut booking response times 4.5x and supported more than 22.5 million annual bookings, reduced database management costs by 20% (daily backups from 12 to 1 hour), achieved capacity above 60,000 transactions/sec to the cache, eliminated over $20M/year in lost business from planned downtime, and maintained 24/7 availability during outages.

Hotelbeds

Juan de Dios García

Head of IT