Case Study: KIXEYE Achieves 10x Database Scalability and 100% Uptime with ScaleArc

KIXEYE Achieves 10X Database Scalability and Performance with ScaleArc

KIXEYE, a San Francisco–based online games developer behind titles like Battle Pirates and War Commander, faced rapidly growing MySQL demand that threatened game uptime and performance. As database tables multiplied and query volumes rose, developers were tied up synchronizing code with database changes and operations lacked centralized visibility and real-time analytics to find problem queries — KIXEYE needed on‑demand scaling, 99.999% uptime, and better query insight without changing game code.

KIXEYE deployed ScaleArc with a simple connection‑string change, bringing up High Availability pairs that provided connection pooling, read/write splitting, and replication‑aware load balancing. Over 12 months SQL traffic grew from 300 million to 3 billion queries per day and the ScaleArc layer handled the 10x increase with no hardware upgrades, delivering continuous availability, faster troubleshooting (hours to minutes), simplified operations, and no application changes.

KIXEYE

John Todd

Senior Director of Operations