Collaboration with MongoDB

Amadeus’ Instant Search technology, most recently adopted by Kayak, the world’s leading travel search engine, is a key application that has been developed on MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, with the operations team using MongoDB Ops Manager to monitor and manage the database. Proactive alerts generated from monitoring telemetry helps ensure any potential performance bottlenecks or issues are spotted well before they affect customers.

To scale effectively Amadeus has distributed the database across multiple shards, the practice of breaking the database deployment into smaller more manageable parts. Using WiredTiger storage engine the team has also managed to compress storage by 80%, leading to significant cost reductions and performance improvements.

For many of its other MongoDB projects, Amadeus has also worked closely with MongoDB’s consulting services team. Amadeus has been using MongoDB in such a range of complex and industry-leading projects that the company has become one of the most sophisticated users of non-relational technologies, even winning MongoDB’s coveted Innovation Award in 2015. Many best practices, and some features, have been created in concert with Amadeus staff.

Aside from Instant Search, Amadeus is also relying on MongoDB to build applications such as an accounting data warehouse that can power real-time analytics for airlines on their revenue and accounting practices.