

In 2014, to increase scale and performance and lower operational costs, Nasdaq moved from a legacy on-premises data warehouse to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data warehouse powered by an Amazon Redshift cluster. Every night, Nasdaq receives billions of records that need to be loaded for billing and reporting processes before the markets open the following morning.Īs automated trading platforms have entered the market, the pace and volume of transactions has grown.
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“This data includes orders, quotes, trades, and cancellations,” says Robert Hunt, vice president of software engineering for Nasdaq. Nasdaq relies on an internal application to capture and store all protected exchange data. The Nasdaq Stock Exchange is the largest equities franchise globally by volume, and it manages the matching of buyers and sellers at high volume and velocity, while providing data feeding the price quote for stocks in electronically entered trades. It is home to nearly 4,000 listed companies globally across its markets and also provides its mission-critical technology to other market infrastructure operators located in 50 countries. Nasdaq operates a total of 27 markets, a central securities depository, and clearinghouse across a variety of asset classes in North America and Europe. Nasdaq is a multinational financial services and technology corporation that owns and operates the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
