MongoDB for Gaming

Whether you’re a solo developer or a large game publisher, MongoDB gives you the best way to work with data.

A modern database for video games

Data has always been an essential part of video games. From player profiles to telemetry, matchmaking to leaderboards, data is crucial to creating great, immersive gaming experiences.Streamline global gaming management

Effortlessly organize, store, and deliver content

You need a database that keeps up with your devs.

Development speed

Video games are becoming more personalized thanks to data-driven gameplay and player customization. In order to satisfy the demands of today’s gamers, developers need a database that enables them to deliver new features and content at speed.Google Cloud: Driving Game Development Forward with Data

Global reach

Video games are a global experience. That means developers need to place data wherever the game is happening. MongoDB Atlas—the most widely available cloud-based developer data platform—is available in 117 regions across all major cloud providers.MongoDB cloud services

Massive scale

Game traffic can grow far beyond what you’ve planned for. Don’t let scaling a database hold you back. MongoDB Atlas lets you go from a single-server deployment to a 1,000-node cluster seamlessly, delivering millions of operations per second.Do things big with MongoDB at scale

A database for gaming

Whether you’re a solo developer or a large publisher, MongoDB gives you the best way to work with data.

Data Model

MongoDB’s flexible schema means that you can change your data layer just as quickly as you change your game. Need to add new items with new kinds of stats? No problem.

Global Cloud Database

MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed cloud database available in more than 115+ regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, with a 99.995% availability SLA.

Data and Development Platform

You don't need a separate database to support transactions, rich search, or gen AI. The world's most popular document database is now the world's most versatile developer data platform.

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“With MySQL, it took multiple game launches to get the database backend right. With MongoDB Atlas, big launches were a success right from the start. That’s no mean feat.”

Yordan Gyurchev

Technical Director, SEGA HARDlight

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“We worked with MongoDB on a month-long project to reorganize the authorization database and increased performance by 100% as a result.”

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“MongoDB Atlas provides an easy-to-use operation interface, which is faster and more convenient for database setup and can provide a high availability architecture with zero downtime.”

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Senior Database Administrator, Yile Technology

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Driving game development forward with data

The gaming industry, with its vast player base of 3.4 billion individuals, is undergoing a transformative shift toward data-driven personalization to combat the challenges of intense competition and revenue fluctuations.

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MongoDB for gaming

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Gaming FAQs

The questions most game builders ask MongoDB.

How does Mongodb help with extensible player profiles?

MongoDB’s flexible document data model allows you to quickly iterate on what constitutes a player in your world. Add and associate new features to player profile objects such as achievements, progression-based unlocks, in-game currency, new classes of gear, and more. Keep your players protected with enterprise-grade security controls at the data layer.

How does MongoDB handle session matching?

Whether you’re matching two players in a 1v1 or 100 in a battle royale, MongoDB’s elastic scalability means you can do so quickly and reliably. The database’s built-in aggregation pipeline allows you to perform real-time analytics on player metrics to help ensure that you’re putting the right people together in a session.

Can MongoDB support entitlements and inventory?

To check whether a player is allowed to take an action, you need low-latency reads at scale. Delays in loading levels or opening menus make players unhappy. When dealing with inventory, you need fast reads and writes with transactional integrity–especially if players have paid real money for their items.

How does MongoDB handle telemetry and analysis?

MongoDB captures game events in real time and scales to meet high-write workloads. It enables you to run real-time analytics to optimize player experiences on the fly with its built-in aggregation framework. Move data to analytics engines such as Spark for large-scale data processing to figure out the next move. For long-term analysis, shift telemetry data to Atlas Data Lake to save on compute but retain the ability to run analysis on demand. The MongoDB cloud platform also makes it easy to visualize data and share insights, with native visualization for polymorphic data and connectors to SQL-based BI tools.

Does MongoDB support ancillary services?

MongoDB Atlas supports messaging and real-time interactions, including cross-game communications. It allows you to integrate user-generated content into your games, update live leaderboards with views and the aggregation framework, and build companion apps and websites to extend the experience of the game.