Solution
PrestoMall, Malaysia's largest homegrown e-commerce marketplace, migrated from legacy on-premises database infrastructure to cloud-native PolarDB to support 250% user growth and elastic scalability demands. The solution ingests order transactions, product catalog data, and inventory updates at scale through Database Transmission Service ensuring zero-downtime synchronization. PolarDB's MySQL-compatible architecture handles millions of queries per second while supporting 100+ terabytes of merchant and transaction data with 40% reduction in IT operational spending. The cloud-native approach eliminates licensing costs and provides high availability enabling PrestoMall to scale confidently while maintaining competitive pricing.
Data flow
Legacy on-premises databases → DTS synchronization layer → PolarDB cloud database → e-commerce applications
Solution architecture
3 components · 2 layers - Storage
- ApsaraDB for PolarDB Cloud-native relational database handling millions of queries per second for e-commerce transactions
- Orchestration
- Data Transmission Service Zero-downtime data synchronization and migration from legacy database systems to PolarDB
- Alibaba Cloud Migration Services Managed infrastructure migration services supporting rapid deployment within short timelines
- DTS used for data migration and synchronization between data engines
- PolarDB is a cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle
Erwin Foo, Group Chief Technology Officer of PrestoMall: 'We were very happy to work with Alibaba Cloud Intelligence for the migration of our database to PolarDB.'
PrestoMall's systems are capable of processing millions of queries per second, supporting up to 100 terabytes of data, while still maintaining a high level of security and system reliability.
The more efficient systems of Alibaba Cloud have also helped PrestoMall achieved over a 40% decrease in IT spending.
