Case Study: Mintify scales toward 30TB and 2+ trillion records on PlanetScale
Key results
The challenge
Mintify, a crypto trading and analytics platform, outgrew DigitalOcean's database capacity. CPU and RAM limits forced 2-3 vertical-scaling migrations per month, large-scale calculations degraded performance, and the platform experienced more than 6 hours of downtime during a Black Friday event. There was no viable path to support anticipated growth beyond 30TB.
The solution
Mintify migrated to PlanetScale for managed horizontal sharding and a multi-cluster architecture (primary, backup and analytics), gaining linear scaling, zero-downtime migrations and dedicated enterprise support.
“Migrate to PlanetScale. That's my advice to teams trying to solve similar challenges to ours.”
EVEvan VarsamisTechnical Founder & CEO, Mintify
The results, in context
On PlanetScale, Mintify anticipated storing 30 terabytes of data within 12 months and running calculations across more than 2 trillion records covering 150,000 smart contracts. The company reports its database is now performant and its users are happy, replacing the frequent migrations and multi-hour downtime it faced previously.