Case Study: Multinational Financial Services Company achieves 50x faster performance and 50% lower hardware costs with YugabyteDB

Global Financial Services Company Modernizes Core Payment Apps

Multinational Financial Services Company, an S&P 500 global payments and banking leader, faced persistent performance bottlenecks, high costs, and limited scalability from legacy databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Cassandra and mainframes) as it modernized applications and pursued a multi‑cloud strategy. To support cloud‑native microservices and geo‑distributed transactional workloads, the company evaluated options and selected YugabyteDB as its distributed SQL database.

YugabyteDB was deployed after lab proofs-of-concept and replaced competing platforms for key transactional apps, delivering dramatic gains — up to 50x lower response times versus Azure Cosmos DB (consistent <10 ms vs 100–500 ms in tests) while running on roughly half the hardware. YugabyteDB also provided built‑in high availability, automatic sharding and strong consistency, enhanced security, and multi‑cloud flexibility, which together improved developer productivity, customer experience and ROI while materially lowering infrastructure and license costs.