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MariaDB for Financial Services
Run your core data on a curated open source database, decide in the moment on live data, and modernize your data architecture on your own timeline.
One data foundation for financial services
MariaDB Enterprise Platform is the curated open source database for core transaction processing and systems of record. It executes millions of transactions across regions with high concurrency, ACID guarantees and the reliability banks expect from proprietary systems, without the high licensing bill.
A core you control and deploy anywhere
Run high-volume transactions, payment processing and trading on an open foundation, with Oracle and MySQL compatibility plus simplified migration tooling instead of a multi-year re-platform program.
Value without touching the core
MariaDB GridGain distributed cache and compute layer absorbs growing digital and agentic read volume in front of the core systems and mainframes you already run, so scale stops arriving as a licensing bill.
Analytics without the wait
MariaDB Exa runs analytics against current operational data, and MariaDB GridGain stream processing performs aggregations and calculations as events arrive. Intraday exposure and end-of-day reporting come from the same foundation, with no extract to a separate warehouse.
Decisions in the moment
Fraud detection, risk assessment and payments move from overnight batch processing into the authorization window, using data that is already in your estate and current in real time.
Capabilities
Platform capabilities for financial services
Core transaction processing that scales
Millions of transactions across regions with high concurrency, strong security and ACID compliance, for digital banking, card processing, real-time payments and trading.
Continuous availability across regions
Raft-based clustering and geo-replication keep write consistency across regions, so the bank stays open when a site fails without any data loss.
Real-time speed layer
Distributed caching holds the hot working set in memory and stays in sync with your core, so customer and risk decisions land in sub-millisecond time.
One foundation, every workload
Transactions, analytics and agents run on the same live data, so there’s no need to build and maintain a pipeline to keep a second copy in sync.
Why MariaDB
Why financial services companies choose MariaDB
Curated open source
An open foundation you can run independently, backed by enterprise capabilities, proactive CVE responses, tested builds, with provenance and governance you can show an auditor.
Deploy anywhere
On-premises, private, sovereign, public cloud or bring your own cloud (BYOC). The same deployment runs wherever the regulations require, with full control over your environment.
AI inside your estate
A unified retrieval layer that grounds agentic applications in your documents and operational data without having to build and run your own infrastructure.
Compliance
Built for financial regulation
Native encryption, access control and audit logging, with continuous availability and data sovereignty, so you can meet compliance with regulations like DORA and NIS2.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
SOC 2 Type II
GDPR
CCPA
UK Data Protection Act
FIPS 140-3
DBS migrates to MariaDB
Southeast Asia’s largest bank runs more than 30 applications on MariaDB, including commercial banking and payment engines, reducing costs by 30% to 70%.
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Frequently asked questions
One foundation for banking: MariaDB Enterprise Server for core transactions and systems of record, MariaDB GridGain distributed cache and compute for real-time decisions, and MariaDB Exa for analytics on fresh operational data.
Yes. DBS runs more than 30 applications on MariaDB, including commercial banking and payment engines, and reports cost savings of 30% to 70% compared to proprietary databases.
Yes. Put an in-memory layer in front of the mainframe or legacy database to absorb read traffic and cut latency. The core stays the system of record, and you can migrate workloads on your own timeline.
Fraud models score transactions inside the authorization window, not after the fact, with data in memory alongside the compute. A leading financial analytics provider accelerated fraud processing 10x for a top-10 US bank with this architecture.
Yes. Deploy MariaDB on-premises, in a private or sovereign cloud, in your own cloud account, or DBaaS managed service on any hyperscaler. You choose where data resides and which jurisdiction governs it.
Yes. AI retrieval and vector search run against operational data inside your estate, so records remain under your control. Agents reason over the same live data your bank already runs on.