Case Study: Heroic Labs achieves flexible, scalable, and consistent deployments with Cockroach Labs' CockroachDB

Heroic Labs Achieving Flexible Deployment with CockroachDB

Heroic Labs, a small but fast-growing game-development startup that builds the Nakama distributed gaming backend, needed a database that made deployment-to-production simple while remaining flexible enough to scale for millions of users. They required a solution that supported identical local and production environments, automated fault tolerance and scaling, and preserved strong consistency and SQL transactions for features like digital wallets — needs that led them to choose Cockroach Labs’ CockroachDB.

Cockroach Labs supplied CockroachDB packaged with every Nakama server, deployable locally, in the cloud, or on-premise and integratable with Kubernetes so Heroic Labs could automate scaling, rebalancing, and repair without complex sharding. The team adopted CockroachDB in early 2016 and shipped Nakama 1.0 in mid-2017; today CockroachDB is bundled with every Nakama server and is used by customers such as Nyan Co., V2 Games, Nazara Games, and Radmule Labs to achieve consistent, fault-tolerant, and scalable production deployments.

Heroic Labs

Chris Molozian

Chief Executive Officer