MemSQL helps power data innovation for half of the top 10 Financial Services Institutions in North America (and many more around the world). This access provides us with a unique perspective into the new requirements of, and struggles with, data infrastructure. This paper leverages that knowledge to describe the common data infrastructure challenges faced by financial services organizations, and what these companies are doing about it.

MemSQL has spent the last six years on a single mission - developing the fastest, most capable database on the market for a new generation of workloads. Today’s businesses are beginning to win or lose on their ability to use data to create competitive advantage, and technology teams at these companies need data infrastructure that can meet an increasingly broad set of requirements, perform well at scale, and fit easily with existing processes and tools.