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.
Neo4j, Meilisearch, and Firebase increased maintenance overhead for a small team.
Managing multiple databases distracted engineers from delivering new features.
Social activity, search, and payment data lived in different systems, slowing iteration.
Complex social feeds and payment analytics required an intuitive query language.
Consolidated social graph, search, and payments into SurrealDB.
SurrealQL powers follow feeds and payment analytics with clear, reusable functions.
Handles over one hundred thousand profiles and growing community activity.
Foundation for transcript search and real-time payment insights.
SurrealDB reliably manages profiles, comments, and payments at scale.
Replaced Neo4j and Meilisearch with one SurrealDB backend.
Developers spend less time on ops and more on user-facing features.
SurrealDB paves the way for transcript search and richer payment analytics.
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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