Why do leading social gaming companies choose NoSQL database technology?
Social and online games represent one of the fastest growing classes of interactive software. Typically, these interactive web applications can support millions of concurrent users by spreading load across a collection of application servers behind a load balancer. But database technology has not kept pace.
This white paper, Data Management for Social and Online Games, introduces NoSQL (or non-relational) database technologies that are a better match for the needs of social and online gaming applications.
This white paper discusses:
- The data management requirements for social and online gaming
- The changing nature of users, apps and infrastructure – and why relational technology lags
- Typcial tactics for extending the usefulness of relational technology
- An introduction to NoSQL database technologies
- Mobile application data synchronization
- Open source and commerical NoSQL databases
What Users Say
“Zynga’s FarmVille, Café World, Mafia Wars and other games have more than 235 million active users per month. We rely on NoSQL technology from Couchbase to make that possible.”
— Cadir Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Zynga
Register now for this white paper on NoSQL and social gaming.