In the world of SaaS, managing document storage efficiently is a critical challenge. A rising hypothetic startup company, needed a scalable, cost-effective backend to store and manage millions of business documents. Traditional cloud services proved expensive, and relational databases weren’t optimized for metadata-heavy storage. That’s when they turned to Contendo Server.
The Challenge
The startup company faced three major obstacles:
- Scalability Issues – With increasing customers, document storage demands grew exponentially.
- High Costs – Cloud storage solutions charged based on API calls and storage usage, making operations expensive.
- Metadata Complexity – Fast, efficient searches were required to retrieve documents based on multiple metadata fields.
The Contendo Server Solution
By integrating Contendo Server, the startup company was able to:
- Implement a lightweight metadata storage backend, reducing overhead.
- Optimize searches with API-driven metadata indexing.
- Lower infrastructure costs compared to Cloud solutions.
Results
- Scalability: Seamlessly handled millions of documents.
- Cost Savings: Drastically reduced cloud costs.
- Speed: Fast metadata-based searches improved UX.