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Accounting Processing System – NH Bank

Altibase resolves NH Bank’s requirement for high performance on large volume data, shortening office hours, increasing worker productivity and reducing spend. NH Bank makes the most of Altibase's 2 node, active-active HA architecture for improved reliability and fault tolerance.

Use Case: Accounting Processing System

Current Customer: NH Bank

Industry: Finance

Who

NH Bank (NH), with 1,172 branches, is the largest and only national agricultural cooperative in Korea. NH Bank’s cooperative banking unit offers diverse financial services: deposits, loans, credit cards, insurances and FX.

Problem

NH was spending inordinate amounts of excess capital supporting employee overtime and extended office hours, which resulted in inefficiencies.

The vast majority of NH’s branches were forced to prolong operating hours on a regular basis. The culprit was performance issues with its financial accounting information system.[1]

The system could not effectively manage loading and processing large volumes of data feeds from its 20 application servers. Representative data feeds included tasks such as transaction processing, branch teller support and error management.

The underperformance wasted valuable resources in the form of needless overtime pay while sparking an uncontrollable deterioration of company morale and overall productivity.

Solution

Since 2006, NH has deployed Altibase for its in-memory feature to buttress its accounting processing system. Realizing that the root cause of its performance failures stemmed from the pervasive performance limitations of its traditional on-disk databases, NH made the switch to Altibase. Altibase resolved NH’s requirement for high performance on large volume data, shortening office hours, increasing worker productivity and reducing spend.

Results

NH has reduced the operating hours of its 1,172 branches by an average of over 1 hour per day.

NH’s accounting processing system has increased the performance of loading and processing data feeds from its 20 application servers by 5 times.

NH’s accounting processing system seamlessly handles 3,000 TPS and over 50 million transactions per day.

NH provides customers with uninterrupted 24/7 service leveraging Altibase’s HA feature that comes out of the box and is deployed without any issues.

NH no longer wastes capital on office overhead and overtime pay and has repositioned itself for higher productivity.

Technical Details – Accounting Processing System

NH achieves outstanding results with its accounting processing system by leveraging the key features of Altibase specifically in the areas of high performance and HA.

High Performance

With a conventional on-disk database in the back-end, NH’s accounting processing system could not effectively manage loading and processing large volumes of data feeds from 20 application servers which provided different categories of services. The legacy system only allowed data processing to be executed in daily batch mode. The throughput requirements of the application environment went far beyond the on-disk DBMS’s intrinsic capacity. As the number of concurrent sessions and the volume of data increased drastically, the performance and the stability of the on-disk DBMS suffered greatly.

Planned and unplanned system outages became the norm, negatively impacting NH’s business.

NH deployed Altibase for its in-memory feature to replace the old, underperforming on-disk database. After NH made the switch to Altibase, the system started processing data from the application servers in real time. The system now handles more than 4,000 concurrent sessions with ease. The system’s throughput was also significantly improved, delivering a minimum of 10 million retrievals per system per day.

NH’s accounting processing system has increased the overall performance of loading and processing data feeds from its 20 application servers by 5 times.

HA

Using the out-of-the-box replication feature, NH deploys Altibase based on a 2-node, active-active HA architecture. In this architecture, both of Altibase nodes process transactions concurrently with each node capable of taking over in the case of a failure of the other node, providing non-stop service with improved reliability and fault-tolerance.

This architecture ensures that NH’s mission critical data is never compromised by unplanned downtime due to a system crash, malfunction or planned downtime due to patches or upgrades to its DBMS.

[1] Financial accounting information system consists of accounting processing system and accounting management system.

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