Case Study: ServerFlex achieves rapid global scaling, ACID reliability, and a 6‑month time-to-market with RavenDB

ServerFlex Uses RavenDB ACID Database to become the AWS of Gaming

ServerFlex, a game‑hosting startup founded by Jonathan Madeley and Alan Doherty, needed a backend that could deliver real‑time performance, global distribution, ACID guarantees and high availability after struggling with MySQL. They chose RavenDB (the RavenDB ACID document database) to power their game instances, player and group data, and operational metadata so they wouldn’t have to worry about data integrity or scale.

RavenDB was deployed as the document store for networking, storage, IPs, players and groups, providing ACID transactions, a schemaless model, automatic indexes, Includes for fast related‑data reads, and master‑master replication for local writes and global reads. The result: RavenDB gave ServerFlex secure, persistent, low‑latency data across regions, greatly reduced developer overhead and time to market—cutting an estimated four‑year effort down to six months—and enabled the company to scale to large, distributed gaming communities.

ServerFlex

Alan Doherty

Co-Founder