Paddy Power Betfair: Easy-to-Manage Performance + Scalability

All-in on Couchbase for easy-to-manage performance and scalability

Flutter Entertainment plc (formerly Paddy Power Betfair plc) is a global sports betting, gaming, and entertainment provider for over 18 million customers worldwide. The company was created by the merger of Paddy Power and Betfair, and the later acquisition of The Stars Group. Paddy Power Betfair switched to Couchbase for the scalability, high performance, easy integration, and continuous delivery they needed to process 500K events every 3 minutes for more than 7 million active customers.

About Paddy Power Betfair

1 million

Transactions per second

500K

Events processed in 3 minutes

Challenges

Oracle was difficult and expensive to adapt for object-oriented languages, scalability, and continuous deliverability
Needed to consolidate numerous NoSQL solutions that weren’t optimal for their use cases
Had to process volatile datasets for real-time betting for millions of users

Outcomes

Couchbase provides an easy-to-use database for developers and operations, and is the ideal infrastructure for virtualization and cloud
Improved performance, flexibility, and scalability of NoSQL deployments
Processes over 500K events in 3 minutes for more than 7 million active customers
Processes over 1 million replication transactions per second

Couchbase Server is designed for massively concurrent data use and consistently high throughput. It provides consistent sub-millisecond response times, which help ensure an enjoyable experience for application users.

Alexandru Objelean Senior Software Engineer, Paddy Power Betfair