The AI-ready
database for gaming

Q: How does SurrealDB support player analytics and recommendations?

Player profiles as documents, guilds and social networks as graphs and content embeddings as vectors sit in one database, which powers recommendations, matchmaking and content discovery.

Q: Can SurrealDB run on game clients or edge servers?

Yes. SurrealDB runs embedded or compiles to WebAssembly, so clients query locally with the same engine as the server, for offline play and lower round-trip latency.

Q: How does SurrealDB handle high-frequency event ingestion?

The Rust engine sustains millions of concurrent game events, from player actions to telemetry and economy transactions, with consistent performance under load.

Q: Can I model game economies and social networks as graphs?

Yes. Trades, guild hierarchies, item ownership and social connections are native graph edges, traversed in real time for fraud detection, balancing and community features.

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Adaptive. Gameplay and content personalised in real time.

Economies. Secure in-game economies on one engine.

Predictive. Systems that learn from every session.

CAPABILITIES

Security, speed and AI-first design. Built for immersive, real-time gaming experiences.

Rust-based core

High concurrency and memory safety for large-scale online games.

Native AI

Generative NPC dialogue, dynamic quests and intelligent item systems.

Horizontally scalable

Millions of concurrent players, with sharding handled by the engine.

One database for every system

Profiles, game state, matchmaking, analytics and AI on one engine.

SEE IT IN ACTION

Detect cheating networks. Coordinated rings and suspicious trades, found with one graph query.

Players connected to a banned account through trades in the last seven days.

1		-- Find players connected to a banned account
2		-- through in-game trades within the last 7 days
3          SELECT
4		<-(traded_with WHERE timestamp > time::now() - 7d)
5                 <-player.* AS connected_players
6FROM ONLY player:banned_42;

USE CASES

Core use cases. How gaming studios apply SurrealDB.

Cheating and fraud networks

Graph analysis over PvP economies and marketplaces, in real time.

Content personalisation

Maps, skins, items and events recommended from player history.

Smart social layer

Friend and guild recommendations from the behavioural graph.

Gameplay telemetry

Moment-to-moment player decisions, tracked and analysed live.

Retention metrics

Churn risk, engagement drops and content fatigue, measured as they happen.

A/B testing

New mechanics and pricing evaluated live with instant feedback.

WHY SURREALDB

Why gaming companies choose SurrealDB. The advantages that matter in gaming.

Your questions,answered

Can SurrealDB handle real-time multiplayer game state?

Yes. Live queries push state changes to connected clients over WebSockets, and the low-latency Rust engine scales horizontally to thousands of concurrent players.

How does SurrealDB support player analytics and recommendations?

Can SurrealDB run on game clients or edge servers?

How does SurrealDB handle high-frequency event ingestion?

Can I model game economies and social networks as graphs?

THE PLATFORM

Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.

Database

Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine.

Five data models as dotted tiles: documents, graph, vector, time-series and relational

Agent Memory

What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.

A timeline of remembered facts, each with its source

Cloud

Managed clusters in the regions you choose, scaled on demand.

Clusters in three regions on a world map, each running or scaling

Studio

Query, explore and design the schema from the browser.

MCP

Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly.

Three models connected through MCP to the database and Agent Memory

IN PRODUCTION

Trusted at scale. Samsung, Nvidia, Verizon, Tencent and Walmart run on SurrealDB.

14,000+

Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud

4M+

Developers building on SurrealDB worldwide

FROM THE TEAMS

SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture.

Justin Foley

VP of Engineering, Later

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Start building with SurrealDB. Player state, leaderboards and live events at global scale.

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The AI-ready
database for gaming