Case Study: Bet365 achieves massive scalability, low-latency performance and high availability with Riak KV

Meeting The Scalability And Performance Challenges Of Online Gaming

Bet365, a leading online gambling group, faced the challenges of massive concurrent players, real‑time odds calculation, session and player-data scale, and the need for high availability, low latency and agility for fraud detection and regulatory change. To address this, Bet365 selected Riak’s distributed database, Riak KV, to replace traditional relational systems that couldn’t meet those demands.

Riak implemented Riak KV as a distributed, schema‑less key/value store with multi‑datacenter replication, near‑linear scaling on commodity hardware, and zero‑downtime scaling and automatic data replication. The deployment enabled Bet365 to process billions of data points and terabytes of data with higher throughput, maintain continuous availability during spikes, and reduce hardware and licensing costs — a result Bet365’s technology leadership says “have not been disappointed” with.

Bet365

Martin Davies

Chief Technology Officer