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
3SELECT
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.
Real-time analytics built in
Player behaviour, game events and heatmaps analysed as they happen.
AI in the game loop
Vector search and knowledge graphs answering at sub-millisecond speed.
Historical auditing
Point-in-time queries with VERSION on a versioned storage engine (experimental) for state rollbacks after exploits, esports replays and real-money compliance.
Any game data
Documents, graphs, vectors and time-series in a single engine.
Scale by default
Millions of concurrent users and events on horizontal scaling.
Your questions,answered
THE PLATFORM
Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.
Database
Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine.
Agent Memory
What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.
Cloud
Dedicated clusters by region, or serverless on SurrealDB Earth.
Studio
Query, explore and design the schema from the browser.
MCP
Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly.
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.
VP of Engineering, Later
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Start building with SurrealDB. Player state, leaderboards and live events at global scale.
