We recently published a case study describing how central banks worldwide rely on the Bank of Finland's MySQL based simulator.
The Bank
of Finland (BoF) acts as Finland's central bank, national monetary authority,
and member of the European System of Central Banks and the Eurosystem.
The BoF developed a MySQL based versatile system for
making payments and settlement simulations, used for analyzing liquidity needs, risk issues, changes in authority
policies & regulations, and more. Running
on Windows, the application has been widely adopted by central bank economists
worldwide.
The Simulator is managing large data sets and thus needed a robust database as its foundation. Key requirements to select the database included:
· Low Costs
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