Case Study: Grab achieves real-time, scalable application performance with Percona

Grab Uses Percona to Optimize Application Performance

Grab, a fast‑growing on‑demand transportation and delivery platform operating across 30+ cities in six Southeast Asian countries, faced a 20× increase in user and transactional data that stressed their AWS database environment. With real‑time availability critical to user experience, Grab needed to solve scaling bottlenecks, eliminate replication lag, and maintain high performance under intense workloads.

Percona performed a health audit, identified issues with workload scale, queries, schema and RDS capacity, and recommended schema changes, query tuning and architecture modifications. The changes were implemented without downtime, delivering immediate performance improvements and a responsive, highly available database; ongoing Percona consulting and 24/7 support now help Grab meet growth demands and preserve a strong user experience.

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Edwin Law

Data Engineering and Database Operations Lead