Smart Traffic Management with Real Time Analysis – Seoul Transportation Corporation
Seoul Metro adopts Altibase for its subway traffic signal control system.
- Use Case
- Signal Control System
- Current Customer
- Seoul Transportation Corporation
- Industry
- Public
Who

Problem
Since subway traffic facilities should not tolerate any system disruption/failure, they should be supported by databases with the highest degree of product stability
24/7 uninterrupted operation and 99.999% high availability
Even in the event of the system going down abnormally, all data should be automatically saved and protected.
Data should be collected and stored in real time so that prompt actions can be taken in case of system abnormalities/failures.
The database should provide and adhere to strict technical SLAs.
The database should have a track record of having been deployed for other mission-critical applications.
The database should be relational as all of the corporation’s systems are built on relational DBMSs.
The database costs should be within its IT budget.
Solution
Altibase’s previous deployments in other subway traffic systems was a major appeal.
Altibase’s in-memory capabilities allow for real time data collection and analysis.
Using Altibase’s move technology, data is stored on disk when it become stale and historical.
Altibase provides hybrid partitioned tables that can manage a large set of datalog while simultaneously ensuring high performance.
Database induced system downtime has been eliminated with Altibase’s HA and disaster recovery solutions that have features of in-memory based real time replication for synchronous/asynchronous data duplication and in-memory based real time backup and recovery.
Altibase’s pricing met the corporation’s budget requirement.
Results
Altibase has a demonstrated history of providing glitch free operation in the past 10 years in the all subway traffic signal control systems it has served.
Altibase’s active-active and active-standby replication function allows for stable and interruption-free operation through data duplication in the event of any system failure/outage.
The corporation is now able to back up its data through Altibase’s checkpoint image file and redo log file.
Data loss could be prevented via Altibase’s durability assurance even with abnormal DBMS shutdown.
