Vote counting system

The popular television contest shows of our time cannot exist without taking into account the opinion of viewers. The most often used tool employed in such situations is SMS (text message) voting. We are proud that our application was running behind the voting procedure of the popular "Megasztár 5" talent contest that closed in late 2010.

In terms of architecture, our task was to terminate the text messages received from the aggregators and total the results in a very reliable manner. The task was completed by our application written in PL/SQL language and operating in a highly reliable environment.

A typical characteristics of such voting procedures is concentrated workload. Votes are counted only within a few minutes. A key requirement for such an application is that this very short response time is provided while reliable operation is maintained even under extreme workload. The results received have to be aggregated real time.