Case Study: Akamai enhances real-time security analytics with Databricks

Delivering real-time analytics at scale with Delta Lake

Akamai, a global content delivery and cloud security company, needed a way to deliver real-time security analytics at massive scale while meeting strict performance and reliability SLAs. To support its web security analytics tool, Akamai turned to Databricks and Delta Lake to help ingest, transform, and analyze huge volumes of streaming security event data.

Using Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, including Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, and Photon, Akamai improved query speed, scaled faster, and enabled real-time analytics for customers. The company reported an 80% increase in traffic and data over the last year, and Databricks helped Akamai handle that growth while also reducing implementation effort through open-source innovations and performance optimizations.

Akamai

Tomer Patel

Engineering Manager