[October 30, 2014]

Aerospike Selected by KAYAK to Deliver Personalized Offers and Scale to Meet International Growth

Aerospike, Inc., the world's first flash-optimized database and the fastest, most reliable in-memory NoSQL database, today announced that KAYAK, the travel search engine, selected Aerospike's database technology to power personalized advertisements and special offers across its entire network and scale to meet rapid international growth.

"Aerospike filled a gap for KAYAK that other caching and database technologies couldn't deliver on," said Ko Baryiames, SVP Technology, KAYAK. "As we continue to rapidly expand into international markets, we needed a solution that was reliable and could scale to serve offers across our network. Aerospike enabled us to achieve multi-key gets in less than 3 milliseconds, deploy with ease and scale with very low jitter."

Operating in 34 countries and 18 languages, KAYAK enables travelers to easily compare hundreds of travel sites with one search and processes over one billion queries a year. To support its continued global growth and ensur predictable high performance, KAYAK replaced ehcache and memcache with Aerospike's in-memory database and NoSQL Key Value Store. Aerospike's hybrid approach to storage combines RAM (News - Alert) and flash memory, enabling KAYAK to meet both it's high performance requirements and scale requirements, while using fewer servers.

Currently, KAYAK runs Aerospike on bare metal servers with Intel (News - Alert) Solid State Drives (SSDs), and has Aerospike clusters located in two data centers in the U.S. and Europe that are synchronized using Aerospike Cross Data Center Replication (XDR). Since replacing its caching tiers with the Aerospike Key Value Store, KAYAK has experienced reliable performance with zero downtime.

"KAYAK pioneered direct booking on metasearch and transformed online travel booking," said Aerospike co-Founder and VP Engineering & Operations Srini V. Srinivasan. "We are thrilled that Aerospike is fueling innovation at KAYAK and that our unmatched price/performance is helping KAYAK scale its international growth and success."

About Aerospike

Aerospike is the world's fastest database. Its open-source, flash-optimized, in-memory NoSQL key-value store operates with unprecedented speed, unlimited scale and unmatched reliability. With Aerospike, developers can rapidly build a new class of Internet-scale, data-driven applications that have the ability to process millions of transactions per second with sub-millisecond response times. Entrepreneurs and enterprises like AppNexus, Chango, eXelate, Inmobi and Kayak rely on Aerospike so they focus on scaling their business, without the complexity of building and maintaining a high velocity database. These disruptive apps run Aerospike in pure RAM or a hybrid RAM/SSD configuration, scaling with the economics of flash. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Aerospike investors include NEA, CNTP and Alsop Louie. Download the open source Aerospike Community Edition at www.aerospike.com and follow @aerospikedb.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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