LexisNexis ThreatMetrix is a global enterprise solution for digital identity intelligence and digital authentication, trusted by leading global brands to inform daily transaction decisions. By combining insights built from billions of transactions with analytics and machine learning, ThreatMetrix fraud prevention solutions unify decision analytics across the entire customer journey.
About the company
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Challenge
Scaling the world’s largest identity network with real time risk decisions
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, formerly ThreatMetrix, gives customers the ability to support a better experience for end customers while keeping fraud volumes low. Each day, when a customer requests a risk decision from the decision engine, it uses information crowdsourced from 5000 companies globally to:
- Handle over 130 million real-time transactions across 40,000 websites to quickly determine which requests are legitimate customers versus cyber threats
- Process two billion API transactions per month from 4.5 billion active devices
- Perform calculations that include anonymized device profiling, smart rules, smart learning, and data from hundreds of properties stored in the data warehouse
- Return hundreds of attributes that inform the customer whether the request is a cyberthreat or comes from a real user in less than 100 milliseconds
Scaling for massive amounts of data
Scale data volume over 2.5x from 450TB to 1.3PB
Predictable performance
Needs to handle heavy mixed workloads of millions of transactions per second across the entire dataset
Scale real-time business decisions
Provide accurate and <300 ms responses even as the amount of data and requests grow
Easy to administer and operate
Maintain and manage a small number of nodes that is easy to administer and operate
Reducing fraud while delivering accurate, frictionless transactions
Low latency global replication
Two replica sets located around the world with <500ms latencyImproved manageability
Easier to administer, operate, and expand with limited operations team resourcesReduced average request latency
Faster response times with latency reduction from 120ms to 30msScale high performance under heavy write workloads
Eliminate bottlenecks and achieve I/O capacity for millions of reads and writes per secondResults
Achieving scale while saving costs
When LexisNexis Risk Solutions hit performance and scaling challenges with their legacy solution, Cassandra, they moved to Aerospike for a solution that was easier to manage, saved costs, and delivered predictable performance even as their data needs scaled.
3.4x reduction in server footprint
From 96 servers down to 28
4x reduction in average request latency
Latency reduced from 120 ms to 30 ms on average
$3.3M cost savings
With reduced footprint, $3.3M projected cost savings per TB over 3 years
Testimonials
We are simply in a latency game and they are the best in the latency game. Aerospike does what they say. Aerospike just works.
Matthias Baumhof, VP Worldwide Engineering, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
By using Aerospike it allows us to take full advantage of the hardware and know that we’re not hitting any bottlenecks within the software, so any advances or improvements in the storage hardware will be directly reflected.
Nick Blievers, Senior Director Engineering, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
