SmartScore, a leading golf platform provider in South Korea, runs its golf platform services on MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, improving platform performance while reducing database operating costs by 71.4% compared to AWS Aurora.
Introduction & Background
SmartScore operates one of South Korea's leading digital golf platforms, providing services including golf course reservations, real-time scoring, and player data management.
The platform connects golf courses, golfers, and service operators through a digital ecosystem that supports real-time scoring input, reservations, and operational transactions across the platform.
As SmartScore's platform expanded and user traffic increased, the company required a scalable database infrastructure capable of supporting high-transaction workloads while maintaining consistent performance and high availability.
To support the continued growth of its platform services, SmartScore adopted MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as the core database platform for its digital golf services.
Business Challenges & Goals
As SmartScore's digital platform grew, the company needed a database architecture capable of supporting real-time transactional workloads generated by golf scoring, reservations, and platform operations.
The company required a solution that could deliver:
- High performance for real-time transactional workloads
- High availability architecture for stable service operations
- Scalability to support the expansion of platform services
- A cost-efficient cloud database platform
- Enterprise-level reliability and technical support
SmartScore also evaluated multiple database technologies and cloud platforms while seeking a solution that could support increasing user traffic while maintaining operational efficiency.
Business Results & Metrics
By adopting MySQL HeatWave, SmartScore established a highly available and scalable database platform capable of supporting its digital golf services.
The platform supports more than 12,000 concurrent users and processes hundreds to over a thousand database connections simultaneously, handling real-time scoring data, reservations, and operational transactions across the platform.
Running MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enabled SmartScore to improve platform performance while reducing database operating costs by 71.4% compared to AWS Aurora.
The high availability architecture, combined with read replicas, allows SmartScore to efficiently distribute workloads while maintaining stable transaction processing.
In addition, the integrated cloud database environment simplifies database operations while providing enterprise-grade reliability, security, and technical support from Oracle.
This architecture enables SmartScore to support the continued growth of its digital platform while maintaining reliable performance under high-concurrency workloads.
Why MySQL HeatWave
SmartScore selected MySQL HeatWave based on several key advantages:
- High performance for real-time transactional workloads
- Fully managed high availability architecture on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Scalability to support continued platform growth
- Integrated analytics acceleration with HeatWave
- Cost-efficient cloud database platform compared to AWS Aurora
- Enterprise-grade reliability and technical support from Oracle
These capabilities enable SmartScore to efficiently operate its digital golf platform while supporting continued service expansion and growing user traffic.