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1. CASE STUDY FOR FINANCIAL SERVICE
Case Study: Samsung
Securities

2. CASE STUDY FOR FINANCIAL SERVICE
AGENDA
￭ Overview
￭ Problems
￭ Solutions
￭ Results
￭ Technical Details
In-Memory Database Solution

3. + Overview
Altibase Samsung Securities
Altibase is provider of In-Memory Samsung Securities is the largest
data solutions for real-time access, investment bank in Korea.
analysis and distribution of high
volumes of data in mission-critical
environments.
Summary
Altibase provided Samsung Securities with the ability to increase their
trading system performance – by 27 times
In-Memory Database Solution

4. + Problems
Samsung Securities had three critical areas that suffered from
inadequate DBMS performance and reliability.
￭ Customer Retention: Samsung Securities had pinpointed significant
decreasing revenue as well as lost opportunity stemming directly from
inadequate retention of global institutional investors. The problems were
simply uncovered by identifying customer complaints indicating that they had
lost transactions, thus profit, due to insufficient speed in their futures/options
trading.
￭ Customer Acquisition: Concurrently, Samsung Securities realized that new
client acquisitions were facing hurdles that originated from the very same
problems with speed.
￭ Growth: Samsung Securities was not able to keep up with the increasing
trading volumes in the futures/options market. Simply put, Samsung
Securities was being limited by its speed. Korea had 3.75 billion contracts of
futures/options trading volume in 2010.
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5. + Solution
 Since 2006, Samsung Securities has utilized the ALTIBASE HDB
in-memory DBMS. The decision to switch was simple, as they
quickly realized that using a traditional on-disk DBMS, with its
endemic limitations, was the root cause of their problems.
 Replacing their on-disk DBMS with ALTIBASE HDB in-memory
DBMS rapidly solved Samsung Securities’ problems.
 Their trading system became a highly available and best of class,
performing service. Because Altibase is a standards-based
DBMS, it took only 2 months with 4 engineers to develop and
deploy the new system.
In-Memory Database Solution

6. + Results
 As Samsung Securities prioritized their DBMS’ speed, high-
availability and reliability at the top of their list, their trading is now
at the pinnacle of efficiency and profitability. Their DBMS runs non-
stop thanks to the superior features of Altibase HDB in-memory
DBMS.
 Samsung Securities is now servicing their customers with a trading
system which is 27 times faster than their old system.
 Samsung Securities has turned attrition to growth by adding 8
additional key, institutional customers.
 Samsung Securities has grown to owning 15% total market share of
all global institutional investors’ futures/options trading in Korea.
In-Memory Database Solution

7. + Technical Details
 Samsung Securities achieved exceptional results by leveraging key features of
ALTIBASE HDB, specifically in the areas of high-performance, high-availability
and migration.
Futures Options Price
ALTIBASE HDB Replication ALTIBASE HDB
Active - Standby
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8. + ALTIBASE HDB Performance
 Samsung Securities, prior to switching to ALTIBASE HDB, was utilizing a Sybase
conventional on-disk DBMS. Growing trading volumes resulted in a significant
increase in the number of database transactions.
 This increase put a big burden on the abilities of their existing conventional
on-disk DBMS which quickly became a bottleneck. Even attempts to use
caching to improve performance did not help, and Samsung Securities could
only process 750 trading orders per minute with an average execution time of
80 milliseconds per order.
 In addition, the burden on system resources grew rapidly resulting in up to
60% CPU consumption to handle database transactions.
In-Memory Database Solution

9. + ALTIBASE HDB Performance
 After Samsung Securities deployed ALTIBASE HDB in in-memory only mode to
replace the Sybase DBMS, there was a dramatic improvement in system
performance.
 ALTIBASE HDB in-memory DBMS enabled Samsung Securities to process
20,000 trading orders per minute with an average execution time of 3
milliseconds per order. While delivering extreme speed, ALTIBASE HDB
utilized less than 20% of CPU, resulting in significantly low resource
consumption.
In-Memory Database Solution

10. + High Availability (HA)
￭ In addition to the performance issues, with the increased volumes of transactions,
Samsung Securities’ conventional on-disk database had reliability and stability
issues resulting in data losses and system outages.
￭ ALTIBASE HDB’s built-in Replication feature was the perfect fit for quickly resolving
these issues without requiring Samsung Securities to invest in additional
hardware or software resources.
￭ Using the replication feature, Samsung Securities implemented ALTIBASE HDB
based on Active-Standby HA architecture. In this architecture, ALTIBASE HDB
replication feature maintains an up-to-date backup of the database on a second
system. If the master server unexpectedly becomes unavailable, service
immediately resumes from an identical database on an alternate server. This
provides a non-stop operating environment with improved reliability and fault-
tolerance. This architecture ensures that Samsung Securities’ mission-critical data
remains uncompromised. Unplanned downtimes (system crash), malfunctions or
planned downtimes are issue-free - due to patches or upgrades to its DBMS.
In-Memory Database Solution

11. + Migration
￭ ALTIBASE HDB as a full-featured and standards-compliant DBMS has
made it easy for Samsung Securities to migrate existing database
objects and data to the new system.
￭ All existing Sybase tables and stored-procedures were converted to
ALTIBASE HDB by four technical staff within two months using familiar
programming languages and standard SQL.
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