Case Study: One Trading powers a 24/7 futures exchange with QuestDB

One Trading runs a 24/7 futures exchange with 1.8M orders/sec on QuestDB

One Trading, a regulated European derivatives exchange, faced the challenge of handling extreme data volumes from its 24/7 trading platform. Their initial stack using Amazon DynamoDB, RDS, and NDJSON files on S3 could not keep up with the high-speed ingestion required by their matching engine, which processes 1.8 million orders per second. They needed a purpose-built, high-performance database to power real-time queries and scale with their growth.

By implementing QuestDB Enterprise, One Trading gained a solution capable of ingesting over 5 million rows per second with 99.9% uptime. The results were significant: the deployment now handles over 21 billion rows, has served 600 million production queries, and provides sub-second failover with zero downtime. QuestDB provided predictable costs, data sovereignty, and the headroom to scale, allowing One Trading to power critical use cases like real-time market surveillance and regulatory reporting.

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