Industry: Retail prize competitions
Tech stack simplification: from five backend tools to one
Aspire Comps migrated from Firebase to SurrealDB to eliminate bottlenecks and simplify operations. By consolidating application logic and data into a single system, the team replaced five backend tools with one, and gained granular, built-in access control in the process.
Required five separate services: Firestore, Realtime Database, Firebase Auth, Cloud Functions, and Elasticsearch.
Higher latency during cold starts and an intricate dependency chain affected user experience.
Multiple systems led to fragmented and complex access-control policies across the platform.
The existing architecture struggled to efficiently handle the growing user base of 700,000 accounts.
Consolidated all backend functionality into a single ACID-compliant, multi-model engine with serverless support.
Successfully migrated data at 10,000 records per second during a 48-hour transition with zero downtime.
Notifications, campaigns, prize claims, chat, and recommendations now all run on SurrealDB.
Used native search, access control, and event handling to eliminate the need for external infrastructure.
Aspire Comps reduced backend complexity by consolidating five separate tools into one.
SurrealDB handles high concurrency without additional caching or optimisation layers.
Schemaless documents and live queries made it easier to test and launch new competition formats.
Now set up for real-time ML pipelines, intelligent recommendations, and generative AI integration.
With SurrealDB’s unified engine, Aspire Comps cut backend complexity, accelerated development, and set the stage for future innovations, including live competitions, intelligent search, and AI-driven features.
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