High-Performance Database Architecture

The conventional wisdom holds that you wouldn’t use an ACID-style, traditional database for holding the runtime state of a real-time application. Certainly you could use one on the backend to hold persistent state, or to handle financial transactions, but you wouldn’t expect an ACID database to be employed as the primary way you’d do something like complete world state management for a videogame.

But does that actually have to be the case, or is that an antiquated notion of what a database can do? I sat down with Tyler Cloutier from the SpacetimeDB team to talk about that specific question.