Case Study: dv01 achieves dramatic query speedup (30s → 1–2s), 90% less management time, and scalable SQL Server on Linux with Microsoft Azure

Financial tech company gains SQL Server performance and scalability on Linux

dv01 is a fintech SaaS company that provides institutional investors with loan-level reporting and analytics to bring transparency to marketplace lending. As volumes and query complexity grew, their PostgreSQL/Redshift stack became a bottleneck—queries frequently hit 30‑second timeouts, DevOps spent roughly 70% of their time tuning databases, and the platform could not scale to meet customer needs.

dv01 migrated to Microsoft SQL Server (initially 2016 on VMs, then SQL Server 2017 on Linux and Docker) and moved infrastructure to Azure. The change delivered near‑real‑time analytics: expensive queries dropped from ~30 seconds to 1–2 seconds, database management time fell by about 90%, storage needs were cut 2–3× via columnar compression, and Azure provided stronger integrated security—while Linux support restored a unified developer and operations environment.

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Dean Chen

Vice President of Engineering