OTT & Streaming Platforms

Database Infrastructure
Built for the
Streaming Era

From season premiere drops to live sports concurrency — Mydbops keeps your OTT platform online, fast, and compliance-ready. So your engineering team can focus on content, not clusters.

ISO 27001 Certified
PCI-DSS Certified
99.999% Uptime SLA
24/7 — Including Live Events
Live Platform Coverage
6,000+
Production Servers Monitored
10B+
DB Transactions Daily
200K
TPS — Dream11 IPL Peak
3,000+
Support Tickets Resolved Daily
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner — 10+ certified professionalsAWS Partner
Active monitoring across 800+ clients globally — streaming, SaaS, unicorns
$340B+Global OTT Market (2025)
5.27BOTT Users Worldwide
24%CAGR Through 2034
80M+India Paid OTT Users
+45%Live Streaming YoY Growth
Industry Challenges

Why OTT Database Management
Keeps Engineering Teams Awake at Night

In streaming, database performance is the difference between a viral premiere and a trended outage. The stakes are live — literally.

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Premiere Drop & Spike Traffic

Season finales and new releases drive sudden 10–50x concurrent surges. Dream11 crashed at just 6K QPS during IPL toss moments — blocking millions from joining contests right at the peak moment.

Crashes block millions at exactly the wrong second
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Live Sports Concurrency

IPL, FIFA, and Olympics events push millions of simultaneous streams. DB write rates, session management, and real-time scoring queries all peak together with zero tolerance for lag or failure.

Live events = highest DB stress in the entire industry
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Recommendation Engine Latency

AI-powered content recommendations require sub-millisecond database queries at scale. Slow queries surface irrelevant content, reduce watch time, and directly drive subscriber churn.

Slow recommendations measurably increase churn
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GDPR, CCPA & DPDP Compliance

Right-to-erasure, data residency, consent management — OTT platforms serving EU, US, and India must enforce all three simultaneously at the database layer or face multi-million dollar fines.

Non-compliance fines can reach 4% of global annual revenue
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Content Catalog & Metadata Scale

Millions of titles, thumbnails, geo-licensing rules, and localisation variants demand flexible schema, fast full-text search, and reliable read performance — while the catalog keeps growing daily.

Catalog complexity grows 3x as platforms expand globally
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DRM Entitlement Bottlenecks

Every stream start validates entitlements, DRM tokens, and subscription tiers in real time. Database bottlenecks at this layer directly block stream starts — a 100% revenue and experience failure.

Entitlement DB failures block 100% of stream-start attempts
How Mydbops Solves It

Purpose-Built Database Management
for Streaming at Scale

9+ years of open-source database expertise applied to every layer of your OTT stack — so your platform never becomes a headline for the wrong reasons.

Live Events

Live Event & Premiere Scaling

We architect and tune your database infrastructure to absorb sudden 20–50x traffic spikes without downtime — IPL matches, season finales, sporting events. Proven with Dream11 at 200K TPS.

  • Pre-event capacity planning and stress testing
  • Read replica orchestration + ProxySQL / MaxScale load balancing
  • InnoDB Cluster / MariaDB Galera HA configuration
  • Dedicated on-call DBA pod during your event windows
Recommendations

Recommendation Engine Optimisation

We tune your MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL clusters to serve personalisation queries at millisecond speed — even as you scale from thousands to tens of millions of users.

  • Slow query profiling and targeted elimination
  • Index strategy aligned to real-time user behaviour patterns
  • Redis / Memcached caching layer architecture and tuning
  • Query benchmarking and regression protection
Content Catalog

Content Catalog Performance

We ensure your metadata database — titles, rights windows, geo-rules, thumbnails, localisation — is always fast, consistent, and searchable at any catalog size or ingestion rate.

  • MySQL / PostgreSQL schema optimisation for media metadata
  • Full-text search index management and tuning
  • Read/write separation for browse vs. ingest workloads
  • Geo-licensing enforcement at the database query layer
Sessions & Auth

Distributed Session Management

We build and manage the Redis and Cassandra infrastructure powering seamless user sessions, login flows, and watch-history continuity across all devices and regions.

  • Redis Cluster configuration and automated failover
  • Cassandra cluster management for high-write session stores
  • Session replication across multi-region deployments
  • TTL management for session expiry and ghost-session cleanup
Analytics

Real-Time Analytics Infrastructure

We manage the database backends powering your real-time dashboards, content performance analytics, and churn prediction models — always-fresh data for product and content teams.

  • TiDB HTAP / TimescaleDB management for analytical workloads
  • Partitioning strategy for high-volume event data
  • Query optimisation for analytical reads under write pressure
  • Compliance-safe anonymisation for analytics datasets
Compliance

Compliance-Ready Database Operations

We implement database-level controls for GDPR, CCPA, DPDP, and DRM compliance — right-to-erasure workflows, audit logging, data residency, and entitlement integrity.

  • Right-to-erasure workflows (GDPR Article 17, DPDP 2023)
  • Database encryption at rest and in transit
  • Audit log infrastructure for compliance reporting
  • ISO 27001 & PCI-DSS aligned DB security controls
Proven Results

What Happens When High-Traffic
Platforms Trust Mydbops

Real numbers from real production systems under real peak load. From clients who trusted us with their most critical moments.

200K TPS
Peak transactions/sec — Dream11 IPL, zero downtime
20x
Query performance improvement delivered for Dream11
200M
Daily emails processed for Netcore at 100% uptime
10K+ TPS
Handled for Netcore during IRCTC booking surges
★★★★★

"Mydbops really helped us scale 20X times in a very short span. They are really good at database optimization, security, and maintenance. Above all, their attitude toward owning the client's problems and treating them as their own is absolutely mind-blowing. Highly recommended."

Abhishek Ravi
Abhishek Ravi CIO, Dream11 🇮🇳 ↗ View on LinkedIn
★★★★★

"As India's leading game streaming platform with 75M+ installs, we handle massive traffic spikes during tournaments. Mydbops has been crucial in managing our database performance and costs for 4+ years. Their proactive monitoring, query optimization, and 24/7 support have helped us achieve seamless scaling."

Rishabh Jain
Rishabh Jain Engineering Manager, Rooter 🇮🇳 ↗ View on LinkedIn
★★★★★

"Mydbops proved to be a reliable database monitoring partnership, delivering 24/7 MySQL monitoring with proactive alerts and rapid response times. Their clear reporting and deep technical expertise helped us optimize performance and prevent downtime. A solid, dependable team that delivers results."

Sumit Srivastava
Sumit Srivastava Head of DevOps, InVideo 🇮🇳 ↗ View on LinkedIn
★★★★★

"Mydbops excels beyond database administration, delivering comprehensive security, governance, and compliance solutions. Their team's deep technical expertise and end-to-end approach to database management and security sets them apart. I highly recommend their database services."

Kuldeep Tomar
Kuldeep Tomar Director Infosec & IT, Games24x7 🇮🇳 ↗ View on LinkedIn
Client Outcomes

Real Results for High-Traffic
Streaming & Digital Platforms

Every number below is from a real production system under real peak load — not a benchmark lab.

Fantasy Sports · Live Events

Mydbops Scaled Dream11's Aurora MySQL for IPL Peak Load

200KTransactions/sec — up from a 6K crash point
20xQuery performance improvement post-optimisation
ZeroDowntime incidents across the entire IPL season
24x7Remote DBA coverage across all critical match events
Aurora MySQLAWSInnoDBOnline DDLProxySQL
Read full case study ↗
MarTech · SaaS · 200M Daily Messages

Netcore Delivers 200 Million Daily Emails with Mydbops MDS

200MDaily emails processed for IRCTC, banks & enterprises
10K+TPS maintained during IRCTC booking surge peaks
100%Critical uptime — zero service interruption
96.5%Inbox delivery rate maintained under extreme load
MySQLMongoDBShardingManaged Services
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Fintech · HTAP · High Concurrency

Credgenics Cuts Latency 4x & Boosts CPU Efficiency 30% on TiDB

4xLatency reduction on critical query paths
30%CPU efficiency improvement post-TiDB migration
$85KAnnual savings on Aurora PostgreSQL
69%Cost optimisation on Aurora PostgreSQL
TiDBAurora PostgreSQLAWS
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OTT Database Architecture

The Full OTT Database
Stack — Managed

Mydbops manages every layer — from content metadata to real-time analytics pipelines. One expert team, full-stack coverage, zero undifferentiated heavy lifting for your engineers.

Managed OTT Database Stack
Content Catalog & Metadata
MySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearch
Session & Caching Layer
Redis ClusterCassandraMemcached
User Profiles & Entitlements
PostgreSQLInnoDB ClusterTiDB
Real-Time Analytics Pipeline
TiDB HTAPTimescaleDBMariaDB
Cloud & Proxy Layer
AWS Advanced PartnerGCPAzureProxySQLMaxScale
Compliance & SLA

Certified, Compliant,
and Always-On

OTT platforms face the most demanding compliance landscape in tech. Mydbops brings ISO-certified processes, GDPR-ready operations, and an SLA built for the unforgiving nature of live streaming.

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ISO 27001 CertifiedInformation security mgmt
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PCI-DSS CertifiedPayment & subscription data
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GDPR ReadyRight-to-erasure & residency
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DPDP AlignedIndia Personal Data Protection
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AWS Advanced Partner10+ certified professionals
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ISO 9001 CertifiedQuality management systems
99.999%
Uptime SLA During Premiere Events
<15min
Critical Issue Response Time
24/7/365
Live Event & Overnight DBA Coverage
Database Coverage

Every Database in Your OTT Stack — Covered

Mydbops specialises in all major open-source databases powering modern streaming platforms. One partner, complete database coverage.

MySQL
MySQL Content metadata & entitlements DRM & Subscriptions
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL User profiles & analytics Recommendations
MongoDB
MongoDB Flexible content catalog Content Catalog
Redis
Redis Session caching & real-time Session Mgmt
TiDB
TiDB Hybrid HTAP workloads Analytics + OLTP
MariaDB
MariaDB HA Galera cluster deployments High Availability
MSSQL
MSSQL Enterprise DB services Enterprise OTT
Common Questions

What OTT Engineering Teams
Ask Before Partnering With Us

How do you handle millions of concurrent users during a live IPL or sports event?

We architect your database layer with horizontal read replica scaling, ProxySQL / MaxScale load balancing, and Redis caching so concurrent sessions hit an optimised read path rather than your primary write nodes. We also conduct pre-event load testing and capacity reviews. This is exactly what we did for Dream11 — taking them from a 6K QPS crash point to handling 200K TPS through an entire IPL season with zero incidents.

Which database should an OTT platform use for content recommendations?

Most platforms benefit from a hybrid approach: PostgreSQL or MongoDB for the recommendation feature store, Redis for real-time preference caching, and full-text search for content similarity. Mydbops assesses your specific stack and latency requirements to prescribe the right architecture at your scale — not a generic one-size-fits-all answer.

Are you GDPR and India DPDP compliant for handling OTT user data?

Yes. Mydbops is ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS certified. We implement right-to-erasure workflows at the database level for GDPR Article 17, data residency controls for EU and India (DPDP 2023), and full audit logging for compliance reporting. Our security controls are fully documented and mapped to both regulations.

What happens if our database goes down during a season premiere?

Our team is available 24/7/365 with a critical issue response SLA under 15 minutes. For major planned events like premieres, we proactively assign dedicated engineers on standby for your platform. Our monitoring systems are built to catch anomalies minutes before they impact users — giving us time to act before your viewers ever notice a thing.

How does Mydbops differ from just using AWS RDS or cloud-managed databases?

Cloud-managed databases handle infrastructure provisioning — but they don't optimise your queries, tune your schema, or understand your content-serving patterns. Mydbops provides expert DBA engineers who know OTT-specific workloads: recommendation engines, live event spikes, DRM entitlement patterns, and analytics pipelines. We're the team that makes your managed database actually perform at the level your product demands.

Can you support a multi-region OTT platform serving Asia, Europe, and the US?

Yes. We support deployments across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises infrastructure in all major regions. We architect multi-region replication strategies, manage geo-aware read routing, and ensure your geo-licensing and data residency controls are enforced at the database layer — essential for any platform simultaneously serving regulated markets.

From the Mydbops Blog

Blog Reads for
Streaming Platform Engineers

Technical articles written by Mydbops DBAs — covering the exact database challenges OTT engineering teams face in production every day.

📖 Blog · TiDB

Scaling to 920M Users: MySQL to TiDB Migration

How platforms handling hundreds of millions of users migrate from MySQL to TiDB for hybrid HTAP workloads — without downtime or data loss.

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📖 Blog · PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL 18 Replication: What's New & STORED Generated Columns

New replication capabilities in PostgreSQL 18 and how STORED generated columns affect replication behaviour in large-scale streaming deployments.

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📖 Blog · MySQL

MySQL 8 Asynchronous Replication Failover

How MySQL 8's async replication failover works — essential for OTT platforms building resilient multi-region database topologies.

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📖 Blog · MongoDB

MongoDB PlanCache Memory Issue: Debugging & Fix

A deep-dive into diagnosing and resolving MongoDB PlanCache memory bloat — a common performance issue in high-concurrency content platforms.

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📖 Blog · AWS

AWS DMS Performance Tuning: Migration Optimisation Guide

How to tune AWS DMS for high-performance database migrations — minimising downtime and data lag for production OTT and media platforms.

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📖 Blog · MySQL

Pre-IPO Database Readiness Checklist

The complete database readiness framework for high-growth platforms preparing for major milestones — with zero tolerance for downtime under scrutiny.

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Your Next Premiere Drop
Shouldn't Be a Database Story

Talk to a Mydbops database expert. We'll walk through your OTT stack, identify your highest-risk bottlenecks, and show you a clear path forward — before your next big event.

800+ Clients Globally
9+ Years of DB Expertise
ISO 27001 & PCI-DSS Certified
AWS Advanced Partner
24/7 — Including Your Live Events