Case Study: Paytrail achieves resilient multi-data center payment processing with MariaDB Galera and Severalnines

Paytrail migrates to MariaDB Galera in under 4 months with Severalnines

Paytrail, a Finnish payment processing company, faced significant scalability and reliability challenges with their existing MySQL replication architecture. Their master-master setup could not handle failures gracefully, causing disruptive application-wide issues during a datacenter outage. To support their enormous growth and ensure continuous uptime for their merchants, they needed a more robust database solution. They engaged the vendor Severalnines to help implement a new architecture using their product, ClusterControl.

Severalnines implemented a multi-data center MariaDB Galera Cluster for Paytrail, configured and deployed using ClusterControl. This solution required no application rewrites or schema changes. The migration was completed with zero downtime in under four months. The outcome was a highly available system that gracefully handles datacenter failures. The Paytrail operations team now uses ClusterControl to monitor performance, schedule backups, and perform upgrades, ensuring high security and stability for processing tens of millions of euros monthly.

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