USE CASE: PAYMENT SYSTEMS
Deliver secure, highly available, performant payment systems using EDB Postgres® AI.
THE CHALLENGE
Balancing the trade-offs
Payment systems, which conduct financial transactions through the exchange of monetary value, are critical for financial institutions, e-commerce companies, and other organizations that rely on these systems for doing business. The databases that payment systems use must deliver a secure, scalable, highly available, and fast experience that helps organizations with their financial transaction system needs. However, these organizations face many challenges protecting customer data as the threat of breaches increases. It’s also challenging to balance the trade-off between performance and availability of “always-on” systems, both of which are required to provide a seamless experience for payment systems.
OUR SOLUTION
Delivering a seamless customer experience
Financial institutions, e-commerce companies, and other organizations can create secure, highly available, and fast payment systems using EDB Postgres AI for their database needs. With enterprise-grade security features, high availability configurations, and various scalability options, you can host your database for payment systems on-premises or in the cloud. EDB Postgres AI helps balance performance and availability so you can deliver a smooth customer experience through a fast, resilient system.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect customer data with Transparent Data Encryption, a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), SQL protection, audit trails, data redaction, role-based access, and fine-grained data access down to specific rows.
High availability
With the EDB Postgres AI Hybrid Control Plane, you can easily deploy on-premises, on any cloud, on Kubernetes (including Red Hat OpenShift), and with hybrid and multi-cloud support. Also, EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) provides high availability up to 99.999% and support for geo-distributed apps.
Various scalability options
Payment systems can vertically and horizontally scale their systems via the cloud. Options include vertically scaling existing deployed database nodes or adding nodes/scaling horizontally in combination with PGD.
Protect customer data and your database systems against the ever-increasing threat of data breaches.
With multiple database options in terms of deployment, availability, and scalability, help create backend systems that best meet your organization’s and end-user needs for performance and resilience.
Secure customer data
Financial institutions can ensure they comply with regulations across multiple countries and regions. Permissions also keep customer data safe by preventing unauthorized access.
Ensure a seamless customer experience with highly available systems
During periods with high usage, such as Black Friday, keep all your customers’ data available, ensuring business continuity at the database level.
Adapt to changing business demands
Easily adapt to increasing demand from your user base with vertical and horizontal scalability options. Adjust your system needs as your data layer grows and the number of transactions increases.
EDB Postgres AI for global highly available payment systems
The EDB Postgres AI platform provides a high availability database solution for your global payment system needs.
Related Products and Solutions
EDB Postgres Advanced Server
Enterprise-grade, Oracle-compatible Postgres.
EDB CloudNativePG
Mission-critical Postgres solutions for cloud-native Kubernetes environments.
EDB Postgres Distributed
Up to 99.999% uptime and 5x throughput performance versus native logical replication.
EDB CloudNativePG Global Cluster
An operator designed to manage EDB Postgres Distributed workloads on Kubernetes.
Resources
Powering the Future of Financial Services with EDB Postgres AI: 5 Must-Read Success Stories
Why Fortune 50 Banks Are Leaving Oracle for EDB Postgres
Financial Services: How to Modernize Your Database (CIO.com)
Why Postgres is Becoming the Standard in Financial Services
Modern Database Strategies: How Financial Organizations Overcome Business Hurdles by Employing Open Source
Why There's More Risk for Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) Orgs Delaying the Move to Open Source and Cloud Databases
EDB is the largest Postgres support provider in the world and the largest single contributor to the PostgresSQL open source project. We are dedicated to assisting financial companies with resolving the pain points in managing their databases and running their business by guiding them through the process of modernizing their database technology with enterprise-grade Postgres. The EDB Postgres AI Cloud Service database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution and Oracle compatibility allow you to break free easily from more expensive proprietary legacy databases. Through EDB’s tools, you can reduce the costs, ease the complexity, and smooth the process of migrating to the cloud and Postgres. Our solutions ensure a successful deployment, including the ability to deploy PostgreSQL on Azure and AWS.
EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) extends and enhances your Postgres security, while PGD guarantees extremely high availability. On top of enabling you to draw from a vast talent pool, EDB delivers expert support and world-class professional services, along with industry-leading SLOs and enterprise-level contracts.
Mitigate risk: Enterprise-grade open source database platforms can extend and enhance security to include all the features that financial organizations need in a modern database management system and ensure you can confidently standardize on Postgres. Risks can be mitigated through improved management capabilities, extreme high availability, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), and other solutions that protect data integrity.
Minimize the impact of unexpected failures: Unexpected database downtime can significantly impact a bank’s reputation, financial stability, and regulatory compliance. But a managed open source platform such as Postgres can provide extreme high availability, and can also enable financial firms to integrate the necessary security and compliance tools to safeguard customer information.
Maintain uptime and avoid service disruptions for routine maintenance: Many organizations see planned downtime as an unavoidable necessity. After all, technology upgrades, mandatory security patching and other system hygiene tasks often require application downtime. But it doesn’t have to be this way. With a distributed version of Postgres, maintenance work can be executed against your database without application downtime or service degradation, so your database is continuously available.
You can read customer case studies of how EDB is providing top global financial firms with a modern Postgres solution
You can read more about the enterprise-grade features offered here.