Case Study: May achieves secure, compliant payment processing at scale with PlanetScale

May needed their highly sensitive financial data to stay in France, their infrastructure to stay secure, and the product to stay fast

May is a B2B financial services company in France that needed a database for a new expense allocation product handling highly sensitive financial transactions. The team had to keep data in France, meet strict privacy and security requirements, respond to Stripe API requests in under two seconds, and support cyclical traffic spikes without any full-time DBAs or DevOps staff. May evaluated PlanetScale as the database platform for these needs.

May chose PlanetScale’s single-tenant cloud database to support secure, compliant development and production operations. With PlanetScale, the team set up role-based access control, used dashboards and schema change workflows, and relied on the platform’s scalability and developer-friendly tooling to move quickly without dedicated database operations staff. The result was lower operating cost, a stable product, and confidence that PlanetScale can handle the company’s expected 3× data growth over the next 6 to 8 quarters.

May

Yann Sainson

Chief Technical Officer