ACI is partnering with MongoDB, a leading document-oriented NoSQL database provider, to strengthen the reference architecture of ACI Connetic; delivering customers enhanced scalability, real-time data access, and compliance-ready infrastructure for secure, resilient, and future-proof payment experiences.
Through its partnership with MongoDB, ACI Worldwide empowers financial institutions with a more resilient, scalable, and cloud-native payments infrastructure. By integrating MongoDB’s flexible NoSQL database into ACI Connetic, customers benefit from real-time data visibility, faster transaction insights, and enhanced compliance capabilities—helping them to meet evolving regulatory demands while delivering seamless, secure payment experiences.
The partnership between ACI Worldwide and MongoDB brings a modern, cloud-native database foundation to ACI’s real-time payments infrastructure.
Why MongoDB stands out for payments infrastructure
What makes MongoDB uniquely suited for modern payment processing is its ability to meet the non-functional requirements (NFRs) critical to payment processing—such as scalability, resilience, availability, performance, and data integrity—in a way that traditional relational databases cannot. These capabilities are essential for supporting real-time, high-volume, and globally distributed payment systems.
Technical capabilities that scale:
Horizontal scalability to allow seamless scaling across distributed clusters, ideal for growing payment volumes and complex data formats like ISO 20022 or fraud metadata
Always-on availability and resilience through replica sets with automatic failover and cross-region redundancy
Real-time performance optimized for low-latency, high-throughput workloads, essential for real-time payments and fraud detection
Flexible document model that adapts to evolving payment use cases (e.g., digital wallets, crypto, loyalty integration) without re-architecture
Minimized serviceability and administration efforts through the Atlas Database as a service cloud offering
Enterprise-grade security and compliance for regulated environments
Why it matters to your business:
Accelerated innovation enables faster development cycles through API-aligned data models and microservices compatibility
Reduced risk is achieved through high availability and data integrity, minimizing downtime, fraud, and compliance issues
Cost-efficiency is delivered by avoiding expensive hardware upgrades and reducing operational overhead
Future-readiness supports real-time, data-rich, and globally distributed payment ecosystems
Enhanced customer experience is driven by fast, reliable, and secure transactions available around the clock
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform was built to power the next generation of applications, and MongoDB is the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market. With integrated capabilities for operational data, search, real-time analytics, and AI-powered data retrieval, MongoDB helps organizations everywhere move faster, innovate more efficiently, and simplify complex architectures. Millions of developers and more than 50,000 customers across almost every industry—including 70% of the Fortune 100—rely on MongoDB for their most important applications.
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