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Stripe's DocDB: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing
Stripe runs DocDB on open-source MongoDB to support 5 million QPS, 2,000+ shards, and 99.9995% reliability while processing $1.4T in payments in 2024. Its zero-downtime data movement platform enables horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and single-tenant/multi-tenant migrations without interrupting traffic using point-in-time snapshots, CDC-based replication, and version-gated cutovers.
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