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Curse Voice Powered by Aerospike's In-Memory NoSQL Database Scales to Over 1M Users
[December 15, 2014]

Curse Voice Powered by Aerospike's In-Memory NoSQL Database Scales to Over 1M Users


Aerospike Inc., the world's fastest database, today announced that Curse Inc., one of the largest gaming information properties worldwide, relies on Aerospike's in-memory NoSQL Database to ensure consistent low latency and continuous availability for its millions of Curse Voice users. Aerospike enables Curse Voice to quickly and reliably scale to terabytes of data and millions of users, all while ensuring optimal performance.

Curse Voice is a cutting-edge voice communications solution designed specifically for gamers, bringing together users' favorite games, friends and teammates with Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) calls, friends lists and instant messaging. Curse Voice has over 2 million installs and over a million monthly active users that have sent millions of messages through the application. Knowing that rapid communication is imperative for devoted gamers, Curse Voice switched from the Apache Cassandra database to Aerospike. With Cassandra, they found it was difficult to scale when they went into alpha deploy, resulting in slow clustering and lowered response times in production.

"At first we tried Apache Cassandra but found it couldn't scale to support the speed that is the essence of our business," said Michael Comperd, CTO, Curse Inc. "We looked at other NoSQL databases and ultimately settled on Aerospike because it is an order of magnitude faster and will enable us to reliably scale from over one million active users to over 10 million monthly active users by next December."



Three Aerospike clusters, which each have two Aerospike server nodes on Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) (AWS) r3.2xlarge instances with local SSDs, replicate data using Aerospike Cross Data Center Replication (XDR) across three regions (North America, Europe and Asia).

"Curse Voice is taking the gaming experience to the next level," said Srini V. Srinivasan, co-founder and VP of engineering and operations, Aerospike. "We are delighted by Curse Voice's success in using Aerospike to deliver new friends lists and instant messaging capabilities, while rapidly scaling its innovative voice communications application within some of the most demanding multi-player gaming environments."


About Curse

Founded in 2006, Curse Inc. is an online media and technology company focused on gaming. Reaching more than 50 million unique visitors worldwide and more than one billion page views per month according to ComScore data, Curse is one of the world's largest and fastest growing gaming information companies. Curse empowers gamers with premium tools, resources and content resulting in an enriched, authentic, and more enjoyable gaming experience. Worldwide, gamers depend on Curse for the tools and expertise they need to take their gaming to the next level. Curse Inc. is headquartered in Huntsville, AL.

About Curse Voice

Curse Voice is a proprietary, free-to-use, voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) software created by Curse, Inc. Curse Voice uses world-class technology to bring players together with their favorite games, friends, and teammates. The software is completely free, easy to use, and brings a unique spin and extra layer of security to gaming communications.

About Aerospike

Aerospike is the world's fastest database. Its open-source, flash-optimized, in-memory NoSQL key-value store operates with unprecedented speed, unlimited scale and unmatched reliability. With Aerospike, developers can rapidly build a new class of Internet-scale, data-driven applications that have the ability to process millions of transactions per second with sub-millisecond response times. Entrepreneurs and enterprises like AppNexus, Chango, eXelate, Inmobi and Kayak rely on Aerospike so they can focus on scaling their business, without the complexity of building and maintaining a high velocity database. These disruptive apps run Aerospike in pure RAM (News - Alert) or a hybrid RAM/SSD configuration, scaling with the economics of flash. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Aerospike investors include NEA, CNTP and Alsop Louie. Download the open source Aerospike Community Edition at www.aerospike.com and follow @aerospikedb.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.


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