Securing Identity Data at Scale

PingDS is a high-performance directory designed to store and serve identity data at massive scale with unmatched speed and resilience. Built for complex, always-on enterprise environments, PingDS supports billions of entries across hybrid, on-prem, and multi-cloud deployments. Whether you’re powering authentication, access management, or customer applications, PingDS ensures your identity data is secure, available, and built for the demands of modern digital infrastructure.

• Massive Scale, Proven Performance
  Supports billions of entries with fast response times—even during peak authentication and access loads.
• High Availability by Design
  Built-in replication and failover ensure continuous uptime and resilience for mission-critical identity services.
• Built for Zero Downtime Operations
  Perform upgrades, schema changes, and replication adjustments without service interruption.
• Low Latency at Global Scale
  Geo-distributed deployments support localized access with minimal delay, improving user experience across regions.
• Enterprise-Trusted
  Used by leading global enterprises to centralize, secure and manage partner, workforce, machine/NHI and customer identity data across complex ecosystems. Perform zero-downtime directory upgrades with confidence.
• Security-First Architecture
  Fine-grained access controls, encryption, and logging protect sensitive identity data at every layer.
• Multi-Environment Flexibility
  Deploy on-prem, in the cloud, or hybrid—without sacrificing speed, control, or compliance.
• Read-Optimized for Identity Workloads
  Engineered to handle high-volume read operations typical of SSO, authentication, and user profile lookups

Capabilities & Benefits

High-Performance Identity Data Access

• Fast response times ensure lightning-fast login and authentication.
• Optimized for read-heavy identity workloads such as SSO, MFA, and profile lookups.
• Reduces latency in user experiences across digital channels.

Multi-Master Replication

• Provides continuous availability and data consistency across global regions.
• Supports disaster recovery and distributed performance with no single point of failure.
• Ensures reliable service for mission-critical identity operations.

Fine-Grained Access Controls and Security

• Role-based permissions, access control lists (ACLs), and secure audit logging.
• Enhances compliance posture while safeguarding sensitive identity data.

Compliance-Ready Architecture

• FIPS 140-3 compliance.
• Supports data protection mandates like GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP.
• Enables secure operations across highly regulated industries.

Instrumentation and Monitoring

• Enhanced visibility for faster troubleshooting, diagnostics and optimization.
• OpenTelemetry support, traces can be pushed to an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint over HTTP.
• Java Flight Recorder (JFR) for monitoring and diagnostics, easily identify performance issues and bottlenecks.

Directory Proxy Services (DPS)

• Enables intelligent request routing, load balancing, and failover.
• Simplifies global deployment management while maintaining performance.
• Reduces complexity in large, distributed identity architectures.

Backup and Restore Tools

• Streamlined utilities for full and incremental backups, enabling rapid recovery.
• Ensures business continuity and data protection against unexpected outages.
• Simplifies audit-readiness and disaster response planning.
• Tooling for streamlined disaster recovery.

Related Products

PingDS is part of Ping’s Advanced Identity Software stack that also includes the below components.