What was the impact of the AI solution?

The platform can process millions of queries per second and support up to 100 terabytes of data. The migration improved security, reliability, and availability. PrestoMall achieved over a 40% decrease in IT spending.

Source

AlibabaProductionEvidence: Medium65/100

PrestoMall migrates e-commerce database to ApsaraDB for PolarDB to support elastic growth and cut IT spend

Use case typeCloud migrationUpdated Jan 1, 2024

PrestoMall, formerly 11street Malaysia, is the largest homegrown online marketplace in Malaysia. The company needed a new cloud architecture to support steady user growth, increased competition, and more elastic scaling. It migrated its systems to Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB and used Alibaba Cloud migration services plus Data Transmission Service (DTS) for database migration and synchronization.

Organization: PrestoMall
Industry: Retail
Location: Malaysia
Published: January 2024

Reported outcomes

100 TB

data capacityProductivity & throughput

−40%IT spending reduction

Strategic outcomes

Scale & capacityEnabled elastic growth for a fast-growing marketplaceOther strategic outcomeImproved security, reliability, and availability

Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

IT spending reduction: 40% decrease

Alibaba CloudJan 1, 2024Customer storyExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

achieved over a 40% decrease in IT spending

Normalized claim

Data capacity: 100 TB

Alibaba CloudJan 1, 2024Customer storyExplicit claimMedium evidence strength

supporting up to 100 terabytes of data

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: PrestoMall
Provider: Alibaba
Maturity: Production
Linked source: Alibaba Cloud

The previous infrastructure was a bottleneck for elastic scaling and had licensing fees that limited operational flexibility

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

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Use case focus

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1Cloud migration
2Data platform modernization

Steady user growth and increased competition strained the existing IT infrastructure.
The previous infrastructure was a bottleneck for elastic scaling and had licensing fees that limited operational flexibility.
PrestoMall needed a more scalable and cost-efficient architecture that could remain reliable during hardware failures.

Migrated core systems to Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB.
Used Alibaba Cloud advanced database and application migration services to complete the move in a short window.
Integrated Data Transmission Service (DTS) to support data migration and synchronization between data engines.
Used PolarDB’s scalability, flexibility, and high availability to support peak e-commerce demand.

Technologies

ApsaraDB for PolarDB Database Transmission Service (DTS)

The platform can process millions of queries per second and support up to 100 terabytes of data.
The migration improved security, reliability, and availability.
PrestoMall achieved over a 40% decrease in IT spending.

Architecture

PrestoMall migrated its database and related systems to Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB and used Data Transmission Service (DTS) plus Alibaba Cloud database/application migration services to move data and support synchronization between engines.

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium65/100Evidence strength