In a highly competitive fintech landscape, continuous service, fast transaction speeds, and a secure, resilient data platform are essential to sustain growth and maintain user trust.
OceanBase powers Malaysia's #1 e-wallet for over 20 million users
Multi A-Zdeployment
Self-healingarchitecture
24/7Uptime
Malaysia's preferred e-wallet and everyday app that is transforming how millions pay, invest, and live digitally. From in-store and online payments to micro-investments and insurance, Touch 'n Go Digital (TNG Digital) is at the forefront of digital innovation.
Background
Challenges
- As digital payments become a way of life in Malaysia, TNG Digital faced challenges typical of a high-growth fintech leader:
- Handling millions of transactions daily: With a surge in cashless payments, especially during festive seasons and promotions, transaction volumes spike dramatically.
- Ensuring high availability: Outages can impact customer trust and revenue, making 99.999% uptime a top priority.
- Enabling cross-region disaster recovery: Business continuity is essential for regulatory compliance and customer confidence.
- Optimising Total Cost of Ownership: Balancing high performance and cost efficiency without sacrificing security or compliance.
- Future-proofing for innovation: The ability to support increasingly complex business scenarios like advanced analytics, hybrid transactional and analytical workloads, and evolving financial services.
Benefits
- OceanBase offers:
- Elastic Scalability – Easily scale up to support fast-growing user bases and peak-traffic campaigns.
- High Availability – Multi-AZ deployment and self-healing architecture ensure 24/7 uptime, meeting the stringent demands of digital payments.
- Cross-Region Disaster Recovery – OceanBase’s active-active deployment and distributed consensus protocols enable fast failover across regions, ensuring business continuity and data durability.
- Superior Compression and I/O Performance – With advanced data compression techniques, OceanBase optimizes storage usage and accelerates performance, even as data volumes grow.
- 40% Lower TCO – OceanBase’s efficient resource usage and simplified architecture help reduce hardware requirements, licensing, and operational costs.
- Future-Ready Feature Set – Continuous updates provide capabilities to support complex fintech scenarios, such as Analytical Processing (AP), Materialized Views (MV), and hybrid OLTP/OLAP workloads, ensuring TNG eWallet stays ahead of the curve.
- MySQL Compatibility – Seamless integration with existing MySQL-based applications and developer workflows, minimizing migration friction and reducing time-to-value.
