Case Study: Global Retail & E‑Commerce Company achieves always‑on availability and low‑latency performance with Riak KV

Meeting The Availability And Performance Challenges Of Retail & Ecommerce Applications

Global Retail & E-Commerce Company needed to deliver fast, always‑on shopping experiences across devices and geographies to prevent cart abandonment and maximize revenue. Facing high volumes of unstructured data, peak seasonal traffic, and the limits of traditional RDBMS, they turned to Riak and its Riak KV (with Riak S2 available for large‑object storage) to address availability, latency, scalability, and total cost concerns.

Riak implemented Riak KV as a masterless, distributed NoSQL datastore with automatic replication, fault tolerance, multi‑datacenter replication and easy, near‑linear scaling as nodes are added. The deployment delivered continuous uptime and low‑latency reads/writes under failure and peak load, reduced operational and capital expense by running on commodity hardware, and preserved sales and customer experience through business continuity and predictable performance — all enabled by Riak.