Why SumUp migrated their global payments platform to CockroachDB

Description

SumUp is the leading mobile point-of-sale (POS) company in Europe, on a mission to create a world where anyone can build a thriving business. As the company continued to grow, they struggled to scale their legacy relational database. SumUp decided to migrate to CockroachDB so they could build a globally available, strictly, consistent, and always-on payment platform. About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.