Case Study: FACEIT achieves 4M+ gamer scale and new industry partnerships with MongoDB

FACEIT Scales to 4m+ Gamers with MongoDB and Cloud Manager, Fuels Major New Partnerships with Industry Leaders

FACEIT is a leading competitive gaming platform that grew rapidly to over 4.3 million users, hosting 2,000+ monthly tournaments and millions of game sessions. The company needed an agile, cloud-ready database to manage evolving user profiles, embed game-specific attributes, ingest streams of time-series match statistics, and scale quickly without the development and performance limits of relational JOINs.

FACEIT adopted MongoDB’s document model and Cloud Manager, later engaging MongoDB Professional for proactive support and consulting to upgrade and tune their environment. Using WiredTiger compression and schema redesign, they cut storage by 50–60%, supported tens of thousands of operations per second with document-level concurrency, reduced instance count by ~30%, accelerated developer onboarding via MongoDB University, and successfully scaled to 4m+ users while enabling major partnerships with Twitch and Xbox.

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Maurizio Attisani

Chief Technology Officer