+1 to Angel Java Lopez's question. In high traffic real-time games, data persistence no need to be in "real-time".
The important thing I think is how to efficiently and accurately delivery message to clients in low lag and low bandwidth consumption Regards, ty 2012/10/8 Angel Java Lopez <[email protected]> > Hi people! > > My questions are basic, but I prefer to ask them, to have more context and > to have a better understanding of your requirement: > > - Why you need a database? What are the use cases? > > I could imagine a game, based on chat messages, that don't need a > database; it can distributed the message to the clients, and it can have an > in-memory state of the game (one server instance per game, sticky assigned > at begin of the game, maybe using a hash mapping from game id to server id > to manage the game; I presume the servers can be identified... etc... > etc...). > > Do you need a database to keep the CURRENT game state? To save the game > history AT END? To keep the score of the players? > > Angel "Java" Lopez > @ajlopez > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Nickname <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm creating a chat based game with Node.js and I would like to know >> which database is best for the job? >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
