Case Study: BodyBuilding.com achieves fast website performance, real-time reporting and $280K migration savings with Quest SharePlex

Data replication helps fitness company stream visitors to its website

Bodybuilding.com, a leading online retailer and the world’s most visited health and fitness website, needed to stop reporting workloads from degrading its customer-facing site. With up to 50 staff running reports against production, site performance suffered; the team’s interim fix—a nightly static copy—caused two hours of downtime, stale data for daily reporting and poor morning performance, and prevented reporting-specific indexing.

The company implemented Quest SharePlex to maintain a near-real-time replica of its production Oracle RAC database for reporting, eliminating the nightly outage and offloading BI workloads. Replication latency averages 4–6 seconds, query times dropped from 20–30 minutes to 4–5 seconds with targeted indexes, analytics run 24x7, and streamlined migrations now save the business up to $280,000 in lost revenue per migration while staying on Oracle Standard Edition.

BodyBuilding.com

Sean Scott

Oracle DBA