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Skyscanner

Marketing Personalization · Real-time Analytics

Skyscanner handles 35 million searches and tens of billions of events every day, so a healthy unified data ecosystem is essential for travel search at this scale — teams across many use cases need to share reliable data and move quickly without breaking safety or governance.

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180 million flight-ranking predictions per day
35 million searches per day
Tens of billions of events per day

Solution

Skyscanner unifies its data ecosystem on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to handle 35 million searches and tens of billions of events every day. Bronze, silver, and gold layers feed shared 'Cornerstone Data Products' that many teams reuse, including a flight ranking model that serves 180 million predictions daily. Unity Catalog governs access to the shared products so teams can move faster and experiment safely on the same trusted data, while emerging agentic AI capabilities are being layered on top to surface more relevant results for travelers across the globe.

Data flow

Tens of billions of events from 35 million daily Skyscanner searches land in the Databricks Lakehouse and flow through bronze, silver, and gold layers into shared 'Cornerstone Data Products' that many internal teams reuse. A flight-ranking model trained on these products serves 180 million predictions a day. Unity Catalog governs the shared data products and is the foundation for emerging agentic AI capabilities.

Solution architecture

2 components · 2 layers
  1. Compute
    • Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Hosts the bronze/silver/gold medallion and shared Cornerstone Data Products powering 35M daily searches, tens of billions of events, and a flight-ranking model serving 180M predictions/day
  2. Governance
    • Unity Catalog Governs the shared Cornerstone Data Products across teams and underpins emerging agentic AI capabilities

Architecture clues

  • Bronze/silver/gold medallion architecture on Databricks
  • Runs on AWS
  • Shared 'Cornerstone Data Products' powering many use cases
  • Unity Catalog governance

Evidence from the source

By building bronze, silver and gold layers on the Databricks Platform, teams create shared Cornerstone Data Products that power many use cases
Skyscanner handles 35 million searches and tens of billions of events every day
a flight ranking model serving 180 million predictions daily

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