Database Architecture
How Stripe's Document Databases Achieve 99.999% Uptime with Zero-Downtime Migrations

How Stripe's Document Databases Achieve 99.999% Uptime with Zero-Downtime Migrations

Managing petabyte-scale document databases while maintaining 99.999% availability demands zero-downtime data migrations. Stripe's Data Movement Platform powers DocDB, its internal DBaaS built on MongoDB, enabling online chunk migrations across thousands of shards via B-tree insertion sorting, Kafka-backed CDC oplog replication, and versioned traffic gating. #Stripe #DocDB #ZeroDowntime #DatabaseMigration #SRE #MongoDB #DistributedSystems #DataEngineering #FinOps #HighAvailability