Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2025
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How will AI-powered applications be built and deployed two years from now, when best practices around RAG and agent-based AI solidify? How will database operators use agentic AI to manage their data infrastructure? Who will win the 2027 Cricket World Cup? All of these questions and more will be answered by Co-founder and Co-CEO of Yugabyte Karthik Ranganathan, and his special guest from the future. You won't want to miss this future-oriented keynote session.

Customer-centricity starts with hyper-personalization and real-time scam prevention. By combining batch and real-time data, OCBC leverages YugabyteDB to enhance customer experiences and security, achieving significant results like increased engagement and reduced fraud, showcasing the database's robust capabilities. Join us for this technical session, where we'll share OCBC's journey to customer-centricity with YugabyteDB.

Join this session to learn how HDFC Bank successfully migrated its real-time payments service to YugabyteDB, addressing critical challenges around scalability, availability, and infrastructure costs. Discover why YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL compatibility, resilience, and distributed architecture make it the right choice. The transition enabled 99.99% uptime, enhanced disaster recovery, and positioned the bank for future growth through microservices adoption. This session is ideal for technology leaders and architects looking to modernize their data infrastructure without compromising performance or reliability.

Mindgate Solutions powers over 9 billion transactions monthly across 65+ banks, placing immense demands on its payment infrastructure. In this session, discover how the team successfully transitioned from legacy database limitations to a modern, distributed SQL architecture using YugabyteDB. We'll explore how Mindgate achieved hyper-scalability, high performance, and ultra-resilience for mission-critical workloads, including UPI and CBDC. This talk will explore key challenges, architectural decisions, and real-world outcomes, offering practical insights into migrating and operating financial-grade applications on a distributed database built for scale.

Join us for an exclusive fireside chat with Rakuten Mobile as they share their four-year journey with YugabyteDB. Discover how they transitioned to a distributed SQL database to power their cloud-native and AI-driven operations. Learn from real-world insights on using YSQL and YCQL, optimizing performance, managing faults, balancing latency and consistency, and enabling zero-touch deployment. This session also explores the path from data to AI, highlighting tangible ROI and future innovations—essential learning for any tech leader navigating digital transformation.

In this session, we'll explore how Boltic is architecting its SaaS platform to scale seamlessly across regions and support millions of users with high availability and low latency. We'll dive into the challenges of distributed data consistency, multi-region deployments, and scaling critical services in real time. You'll learn how YugabyteDB fits into this architecture as a resilient, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database, enabling Boltic to ensure zero downtime, automatic failover, and geo-distributed workloads. This talk is ideal for engineers building modern cloud-native platforms who want to understand practical global strategies for scaling databases and infrastructure.

Postgres to YugabyteDB with zero-downtime? In this session, UPI will share how they migrated their PSP app to YugabyteDB and addressed challenges like peak demand and disaster recovery. We'll show you how the live migration using YugabytDB Voyager and Kafka enabled seamless scalability, high availability, and improved performance.

Join us to discover how KFINTECH, a leader in India's financial market, achieved "always-on" services at massive scale. This presentation details their journey to overcome performance bottlenecks and operational complexities, impacting 330 million investor folios. Learn how their partnership with YugabyteDB transformed their architecture, reducing response times to milliseconds and ensuring seamless operations even during failures. Gain insights into distributed database architectures, data migration strategies, and how to significantly reduce TCO. Don't miss this opportunity to understand key technical learnings and the business results of building a highly scalable and resilient financial platform.

In this session, we'll explore how RS Software built a scalable, resilient system using YugabyteDB for real-time fraud detection. We'll investigate about the challenges RS Software faced with the previous system and what prompted us to select YugabyteDB as the data platform to future-proof our fraud detection stack, which processes millions of transactions per day.

Helpshift operates a self-hosted Yugabytedb cluster to support their critical, cloud-native applications. In this session, we'll walk through Helpshift's journey of operationalizing YugabyteDB in production. We'll explain how Helpshift integrated with Odyssey (a connection pooling layer), implemented user management and authentication workflows, configured Change Data Capture (CDC) to support real-time data pipelines, and designed a scalable and resilient architecture. You'll also gain a behind-the-scenes look at the configuration strategy, from key parameters to performance tuning.

In this session, Yugabyte's Hariprasad Mohanarangan will explore the importance of building resilient and highly available database architectures for modern applications. The talk will focus on xCluster replication in YugabyteDB, covering critical use cases such as disaster recovery (xClusterDR) and active-active deployments. Attendees will clearly understand YugabyteDB's cluster-to-cluster replication architecture, including uni-directional and bi-directional modes, and how these features enable fault isolation, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity. Hariprasad will also share insights into upcoming enhancements like automatic DDL replication, offering a forward-looking view of distributed database resilience.

No migrations are "easy," but they can be painless! In this session, Nadeem Khan will showcase end-to-end database migration solutions to YugabyteDB from other widely used relational databases, utilizing various tools and integration strategies. We'll explore the capabilities of YugabyteDB Voyager, Yugabyte's native migration tool, and its integration with leading Change Data Capture (CDC) tools to enable real-time data replication between source systems and the target YugabyteDB environment.

YugabyteDB unifies distributed SQL and advanced vector search with seamless horizontal scalability, enabling millisecond-latency semantic search across billions of embeddings. In this session, we’ll explore how YugabyteDB’s Vector-LSM storage layer—powered by USearch and HNSW—shards vector indexes across the cluster for high performance. You’ll see how hybrid queries combine vector search with SQL operations within a single database, removing the need for separate systems. We’ll also compare YugabyteDB to other vector databases, highlighting its superior scalability, resilience, and unified management of both relational and vector workloads, making it ideal for enterprise AI at cloud scale.

For those facing the challenges of scaling mission-critical applications in FinTech, this session offers a valuable perspective. We'll share why Thoughtbox made the strategic decision to standardize on YugabyteDB as the foundation for all core systems and how that move reshaped their architecture. Attendees will gain real-world insights into the evaluation process, the pain points that led to change, and how YugabyteDB enabled a resilient, scalable microservices environment. Whether you're exploring distributed databases or planning a modernization journey, this session delivers practical takeaways and lessons learned from the field.

Augmented Fraud Intelligence with YugabyteDB and PGVector is an innovative, scalable system that helps detect fraud more accurately by combining AI and human review. In this session, we'll show you how vector search can be used to find similar transactions in real-time and let analysts review and give feedback. Feedback is stored with each transaction, creating a learning loop that helps the system get better over time. We'll show you how it's built to scale, stay reliable, and meet compliance needs — making fraud detection faster, more intelligent, and more trustworthy.

Get inspired by our partners as they share firsthand stories of innovation, growth, and success powered by YugabyteDB. These testimonials highlight real-world impact and the strength of collaboration.

As we wrap up DSS Asia 2025, this closing session reflects on the key insights, themes, and innovations shared throughout the summit. From emerging trends in distributed SQL to real-world success stories across the APAC region, we’ll highlight the moments that defined this year’s event. Join us as we celebrate our community’s contributions, share final takeaways, and look ahead to the future of cloud-native data architecture.