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Simplifying social infrastructure with SurrealDB

Industry: Media and entertainment

Tech stack simplification: from three databases to one

Fountain connects creators with listeners using the Bitcoin Lightning Network. By moving its social graph and payments features to SurrealDB, the team replaced multiple services with one unified database and can focus on building a great listening experience.

Key challenges

FRAGMENTED INFRASTRUCTURE

Neo4j, Meilisearch, and Firebase increased maintenance overhead for a small team.

TIME-CONSUMING OPERATIONS

Managing multiple databases distracted engineers from delivering new features.

SCATTERED DATA

Social activity, search, and payment data lived in different systems, slowing iteration.

NEED FOR FLEXIBLE QUERIES

Complex social feeds and payment analytics required an intuitive query language.

Solutions

UNIFIED DATABASE

Consolidated social graph, search, and payments into SurrealDB.

SIMPLE QUERY LANGUAGE

SurrealQL powers follow feeds and payment analytics with clear, reusable functions.

EASY SCALABILITY

Handles over one hundred thousand profiles and growing community activity.

ROOM TO GROW

Foundation for transcript search and real-time payment insights.

Results

GROWING COMMUNITY

100k+ USERS

SurrealDB reliably manages profiles, comments, and payments at scale.

SIMPLER STACK

3 → 1 SERVICES

Replaced Neo4j and Meilisearch with one SurrealDB backend.

MORE PRODUCT TIME

FOCUS UNLOCKED

Developers spend less time on ops and more on user-facing features.

BUILT FOR TOMORROW

READY TO SCALE

SurrealDB paves the way for transcript search and richer payment analytics.

Why SurrealDB?

SurrealDB's unified platform lets Fountain's small team build advanced social and payment features without the headache of managing multiple databases.

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