# Why these three fintech companies scaled with distributed SQL

DevFeed: [Why these three fintech companies scaled with distributed SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-these-three-fintech-companies-scaled-with-distributed-sql-23783.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/fintech-companies-scaled-distributed-sql>)

Author: Becca Weng

Published: 2026-02-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clusters.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [compatibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compatibility.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [financial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial.md>), [fintech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fintech.md>), [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.md>), [india](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/india.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [multi-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multi-cloud.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [payments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payments.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes how fintech platforms face growing transaction volumes, tighter regulations, and demanding financial workloads. Leaders from Groww, Global Payments, and Yubi explain their experiences, while the detailed case study of Groww covers its move from MySQL to CockroachDB to support horizontal scalability, multi-region resiliency, transactional guarantees, compliance, and growth with minimal application changes.

## Source excerpt

From retail investing and global card payments to large-scale lending, fintech platforms are being pushed to their limits. User expectations are rising, regulations are tightening, and transaction volumes are growing faster and more unpredictably than ever before. Across these domains, one theme is emerging clearly: traditional databases struggle to keep up with modern financial workloads at scale.