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Handle game virality, scale with user demand

Social gaming and online sports betting are competitive environments. Your game must be able to handle large volumes of unpredictable traffic while simultaneously promising zero downtime. Gamers expect to play whenever they want, for as long as they want, and have no tolerance for delays or lag. At the heart of any successful game is a gaming database that maintains 100% uptime, scales in real time to handle millions of users or more, and provides users a responsive and personalized experience across all of their devices.

Scalability and performance

Online gaming applications need to handle a large number of concurrent players and high traffic volumes

Network infrastructure and connectivity

Online gaming relies on network connectivity, solving for data access when the network becomes unstable is critical. A reliable game development database must account for these network fluctuations to ensure continuous gameplay.

Content management and updates

Balancing the need for timely updates with minimizing disruptions to the player experience is crucial. An agile game database software helps streamline updates without compromising performance.

WHY COUCHBASE

Why Couchbase NoSQL for gaming applications

Key features for why customers choose Couchbase’s NoSQL database for game development and deployment of mission-critical experiences.

Easier, more affordable scalability

Couchbase’s network-centric architecture allows developers to easily scale their game database while maintaining high performance under growing demand.

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Better performance

Couchbase’s in-memory and distributed architecture consistently delivers the sub-millisecond responsiveness that users need.

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Availability and disaster recovery

Couchbase provides built-in high availability and flexible replication capabilities that supports disaster recovery.

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Integrated mobile capabilities

Couchbase Mobile extends apps from the cloud to the edge with an embedded NoSQL database and a web gateway for data sync.

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Lower costs, faster time to market

Couchbase drives the flexibility and increased operational efficiency you need to keep up with constantly changing data.

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Enable operational analytics

The Analytics service in Couchbase reduces the time to insight on operational data and simplifies analytical data pipelines.

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Customer testimonials related to gaming

  • “Harnessing the power of the cloud through Capella allowed us to deploy applications in multiple regions in parallel quickly and seamlessly.”
    Jae Beom Cho, Director of Game Infrastructure, Nexon
  • “With Couchbase and Capella, millions of players are able to have a consistent experience without any disruptions, even when network connectivity is unreliable.”
    Lars Schmeller, Team Lead, Lotum
    800 million downloads
    10+ million monthly active users
  • “Couchbase provides consistent sub-millisecond response times, which help ensure an enjoyable experience for application users.”
    Alexandru Objelean, Senior Software Engineer, Paddy Power Betfair
    1M replication transactions per second
    500K events processed in 3 minutes

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