Other Key Industries
Creative innovators in the game, science and interactive media industries widely deploy the Versant Database Engine.
The Future of Gaming
Clearly, the game is key. Without the game, customers have no reason to join the online gaming community. However, the game server and its database are the most critical components of your infrastructure. A database that doesn’t scale will lead to unacceptable latency or massive player sharding (shared-nothing), both symptoms that kill the user experience for the gamer. Furthermore, a database that requires expensive hardware to scale up to tens or even hundreds of thousands of gamers may turn out to destroy the financial viability of an online multi-player game.
The transaction load is characterized by a large amount of updates and reads. These transactions have to be processed in an environment that is as latency-free as possible. Every move a player makes, as well as every item, object and monster is at least one data element within the game's database. In an MMOG, literally hundreds of thousands of players are performing these updates constantly.
So when it comes to data management for MMOG, publishers and their developers need a future-proof solution that supports minimum latency via clustered caching, high performance via parallel processing, and high availability and data partitioning for scalability. Plus, they need a technology that reduces the risk of unavailability while helping to maximize profits. Versant Database Engine provides these solutions and more.
High Performance Computing Applications – Scientific Research
Research facilities world wide are crunching an ever increasing volume of data and building some of the most fascinating applications imaginable. From space discovery with the Herschel telescope that was sent to space by the European Space Agency ESA, to fundamental research on Global Warming at the National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC, Versant is proud to help further the cause of these researchers.
Versant’s qualities of extreme performance, scalability, complexity, and real-time data management have lent themselves to powerful database solutions for the future.
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