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Aerospike Names Southeast Asia's Champions of Scale Winners
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Regional Leaders in Real-Time Infrastructure
Aerospike announced three Southeast Asian winners of its Champions of Scale awards at events in Manila and Jakarta last week, recognizing organizations that deliver real-time performance at massive scale. Globe (Philippines), Grab (regional), and XLSMART (Indonesia) join a global community of infrastructure innovators, following India's Champions announced in September. The awards celebrate engineers who push the boundaries of speed, scale, and efficiency across telecom, fintech, and digital services.
Performance at Billions of Transactions
Globe built an AI-powered personalization engine on Aerospike's database that boosted customer engagement by 200% while processing billions of weekly scores with millisecond response times. Grab, Southeast Asia's super app, deployed Aerospike for real-time fraud detection across millions of daily transactions, achieving sub-2ms latency and cutting infrastructure costs through database consolidation. XLSMART delivers real-time product catalog updates and recommendations to over 10 million subscribers with sub-millisecond responsiveness.
Infrastructure Modernization Across Sectors
The three winners represent critical sectors driving Southeast Asia's digital transformation: telecommunications infrastructure, mobility and financial services, and digital customer engagement. "Customers across Southeast Asia are pushing the limits of scale in telecom, mobility, and financial services," said Aveekshith Bushan, Regional Vice President of APAC at Aerospike. Each organization modernized legacy systems to deliver real-time decisions powered by AI and machine learning, with performance metrics that match global benchmarks.
Growing Global Recognition Program
The Champions of Scale program features peer nominations, community voting, and review by industry experts including database pioneers and infrastructure leaders from data-intensive companies. Venky Guntur, Country Manager for ASEAN at Aerospike, noted that "Southeast Asia's digital economy continues to grow at an incredible pace," with these champions building the infrastructure that powers this innovation. The program will expand to additional regions with ceremonies planned at upcoming industry events worldwide.
This expansion from India to Southeast Asia signals a strategic shift in where global database innovation is happening. While Silicon Valley once dominated infrastructure awards, Aerospike's recognition of Manila and Jakarta winners reflects the reality that emerging markets now set the pace for real-time scale.
These aren't small deployments: Globe's billions of weekly scores, Grab's millions of daily fraud checks, and XLSMART's 10 million subscribers represent production workloads that rival or exceed Western counterparts. The timing matters too. As Western tech companies face growth plateaus, Southeast Asia's digital economy continues its explosive trajectory, making it the proving ground for next-generation database architecture.
The awards also reveal a convergence pattern: every winner combines real-time data infrastructure with AI, suggesting that traditional database categories are dissolving into unified platforms where speed, scale, and intelligence operate as a single stack.
