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Are You Prepared for DORA Regulations?

Operational resilience isn’t just a business goal—it’s now a regulatory mandate. With the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) officially in effect as of January 17, 2025, organizations must meet stringent requirements for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) risk management, incident response, and vendor oversight. DORA applies to financial entities operating within the EU, such as banks, insurance companies, investment firms, crypto-asset service providers, and their critical third-party ICT service providers. 

The stakes are clear: compliance is no longer optional, and your ability to thrive in a fast-changing, high-risk world depends on how prepared your business is.

At CrateDB, we’ve been working closely with customers across Europe to ensure that their operational resilience strategies are not just DORA-compliant but also future-ready.

Let’s explore how CrateDB provides the robust technical foundation needed to build tools and processes that support resilient operations and DORA compliance.

Meeting the Five Key Challenges of DORA

Achieving DORA compliance requires addressing five core areas, each designed to strengthen the operational resilience of financial institutions. Here’s how CrateDB empowers you to meet these requirements confidently.

1. ICT Risk Management

To comply with DORA, financial institutions must proactively identify, monitor, and mitigate ICT risks across systems and third-party dependencies.

  • Proactive Risk Detection: CrateDB’s real-time processing and analysis capabilities provide the infrastructure for tools that continuously monitor financial systems, detect vulnerabilities, and address risks before they escalate.
  • Regulatory Dashboards: Build dashboards powered by CrateDB to monitor compliance status, system performance, and real-time risk indicators across your organization.

2. Incident Management 

DORA requires secure, detailed, and immutable records of ICT incidents for timely reporting and audits.

  • Tamper-Proof Logging: CrateDB’s immutable logs provide a secure foundation for incident tracking and case investigations, ensuring full transparency for audits and regulatory reporting.
  • Fast Response Times: By storing and querying incident data in real time, CrateDB enables quicker responses in sub milliseconds and more effective mitigation strategies.

3. Operational Resilience Testing 

Testing the resilience of critical systems generates vast amounts of data that must be stored, queried, and benchmarked effectively.

  • Effortless Scalability: CrateDB’s distributed architecture handles the growing datasets from penetration tests, stress tests, and other resilience evaluations.
  • Performance Tracking: Use CrateDB to benchmark system improvements over time and maintain a clear view of your operational readiness. 
Click here to review an independent benchmark study that highlights CrateDB's consistently top performance for time-series data use cases 

4. Third-Party Vendor Risk Management

Managing risks associated with third-party ICT providers such as CrateDB is critical for DORA compliance.

  • Resilience Through Flexibility: CrateDB’s multi-cloud and hybrid deployment options allow you to seamlessly move workloads between on-premises environments and cloud providers, ensuring uninterrupted performance—even if a vendor fails. CrateDB’s ability to "run anywhere" ensures uninterrupted performance, even in the face of infrastructure disruptions.


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Figure 1 Run Anywhere

  • Unified Risk Visibility: With SQL compatibility, CrateDB integrates seamlessly with legacy systems and modern tools, giving you a centralized view of third-party dependencies.
  • Proven Trustworthiness: CrateDB is trusted by industries such as financial services, IoT, and manufacturing, and is backed by compliance certifications like GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. These certifications demonstrate CrateDB’s reliability as a secure database platform, which supports organizations in building DORA-compliant solutions. 

5. Seamless Integration

Compliance platforms must work with your existing systems, not against them.

  • Easy Integration: CrateDB bridges the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern APIs with its SQL-compliant interface, enabling a unified, efficient approach to risk management.
  • Future-Ready Design: CrateDB adapts to evolving requirements, allowing you to maintain compliance as regulations and technologies change.

Click here to explore CrateDB's native integration capabilities, enabled by its PostgreSQL compatibility.

Why CrateDB Is Essential

Your business is only as resilient as the foundation it’s built on—and CrateDB is that foundation. Purpose-built for real-time analytics and operational resilience, CrateDB provides the technical backbone for building compliance tools, enabling organizations to meet DORA requirements while creating a foundation for competitive advantage. Here’s how:

  • Detect Risks in Real-Time: Identify vulnerabilities and anomalies as they happen with CrateDB’s real-time analytics. Examples include:
    • Regulatory dashboards providing instant visibility into compliance status.
    • Analyzing logs for post-incident forensics and faster recovery.
  • Scale with Confidence: Handle increasing data volumes without performance trade-offs. As an example, CrateDB’s distributed architecture grows with your needs, ensuring consistent performance even under pressure.
  • Ensure Compliance Transparency: Maintain tamper-proof, immutable logs for audits and reporting.
  • Mitigate Vendor Risks: CrateDB’s multi-cloud flexibility ensures that operations remain resilient, even when infrastructure providers face disruptions. (Figure 1)
  • Integrate Seamlessly: With SQL compliance and modern APIs, CrateDB connects your entire tech stack, providing a unified view of risks and performance.

The Future is Resilient 

DORA is more than a regulation—it’s a roadmap for building a stronger, more adaptable financial ecosystem.

CrateDB plays a dual role in supporting operational resilience:

  • Real-time Compliance Controls: Providing the foundation for tamper-proof logging, real-time dashboards, and automated regulatory processes.
  • Intelligent Business Applications: Powering scalable, resilient applications with real-time analytics, hybrid search, time series, and hybrid deployment.
With CrateDB, you gain the tools to meet today’s regulatory demands and the foundation to build a secure, scalable future. Let’s prepare together.