Case Study: Kaizen Gaming reaches 31ms response times and 4x throughput on CockroachDB
Key results
The challenge
Kaizen Gaming operates an online betting and gaming platform across 19 markets, serving more than 13 million active users and streaming over 400,000 live events in 2024. Its payments platform needed to sustain very high insert throughput while remaining resilient during failover and restore scenarios.
The solution
Kaizen Gaming migrated its payments platform to CockroachDB, working with Cockroach Labs on feature requests during the migration and tuning cluster size to balance throughput and CPU utilization.
“Even if the world is destroyed, you know CockroachDB will be there.”
NRNikos RoumpoutsosHead of Payments Platform, Kaizen Gaming
The results, in context
Kaizen Gaming reported a 31ms average response time after optimization, and scaled from 120,000 inserts per minute on 6 nodes at 75% CPU to 480,000 inserts per minute on 24 nodes at 65% CPU. During the period, the business reported a 37% year-over-year increase in sportsbook members and a 118% increase in casino registrations in 2024 versus 2023.