Case Study: OpenRice achieves 8–9× faster database throughput and faster application rollouts with Pure Storage

OpenRice Improves Database Performance with Pure Storage

OpenRice is a Hong Kong–headquartered restaurant review portal serving much of Asia, listing over 1.9 million restaurants, 2.7 million registered diners and handling more than 9 million page views per day. Rapid growth, increasing user-generated content and new social and O2O features strained its legacy spinning‑disk storage, creating I/O bottlenecks that slowed database queries, impeded virtualization and limited the team’s ability to roll out new services.

Working with ELM, OpenRice replaced its disks with a Pure Storage FlashArray in a proof‑of‑concept and moved virtualized database servers onto flash. Throughput improved 8–9x with peak I/O of about 1.27 GB/s read and 1.24 GB/s write, speeding response times, reducing storage footprint and database licensing costs, enabling linear scale‑out, faster feature deployment and nondisruptive upgrades that freed IT staff for higher‑value work.

OpenRice

Joe Yau

Chief Operating & Technology Officer