About Nexon

Nexon, a global leader in virtual world games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), uses Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for greater developer agility. With Capella on AWS, Nexon achieved a faster time to market with its launch of Blue Archive, which was released worldwide in 2021. Capella’s high availability and distributed memory-first architecture delivers a consistent performance experience for players as game adoption grows.

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  • Flexible data model while still using SQL
  • Ability to launch new regions in approximately 20 minutes
  • Large reduction of management efforts with improved uptime
  • Controlled data replication, moving subsets of data with XDCR

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20min

launch time for new regions

“Harnessing the power of the cloud with Capella allowed us to deploy applications in multiple regions in parallel quickly and seamlessly.”
Jae Beom Cho, Director of Game Infrastructure, Nexon

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