Gaming Data Analytics Solutions
Unlock Player Insights, Combat Cheats, and Scale Live Ops in Real Time
TeraDB Cloud empowers gaming companies to analyze billions of in-game events, personalize player experiences, and optimize monetization—all while reducing infrastructure costs by 50% with open-source speed and flexibility.
Key Challenges in Gaming Analytics
Real-Time Player Monitoring
Tracking 10M+ concurrent players with sub-10ms latency.
Cheat Detection
Identifying aimbots, wallhacks, and DDoS attacks in real time.
Live Ops Scalability
Managing sudden traffic spikes during game launches or esports events.
Player Retention
Reducing churn with personalized rewards and dynamic difficulty adjustments.
In-Game Economy Balancing
Preventing inflation/exploits in virtual currencies and NFT markets.
Unstructured and Uncompressed Data
Different Data Sources provide data in unstructured or Uncompressed form.
Technical Use Cases for Gaming Analytics
Real-Time Player Behavior Tracking
Challenge
Analyze 1M+ events/sec (kills, purchases, match outcomes) to improve engagement.
Solution
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Ingest game telemetry (Protobuf/JSON) into ClickHouse via Kafka, using Materialized Views to compute metrics like DAU, session length, and win rates.
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Cache player profiles (achievements, inventory) in RediSearch for <5ms API lookups during matchmaking.
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Visualize trends in Grafana dashboards (e.g., "30% drop in Level 10 retention").
Anti-Cheat Engine
Challenge
Detect and ban cheaters within seconds of anomalous activity.
Solution
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Analyze player telemetry (mouse movements, shot accuracy) with ClickHouse ML UDFs using statistical models (Z-score, clustering).
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Cross-reference hardware IDs/IPs with known cheat signatures in Elasticsearch’s threat intel plugins.
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Auto-ban offenders via Redis Streams integrated with game server APIs.
Dynamic Live Ops
Challenge
Adjust in-game events (e.g., holiday sales, boss raids) based on real-time engagement.
Solution
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Use ClickHouse window functions to track event participation rates and spawn rewards dynamically.
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Deploy A/B tests (e.g., "2x XP weekend") via Elasticsearch’s feature flagging.
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Auto-scale ClickHouse clusters on AWS Spot Instances during peak traffic (70% cost savings).
Personalized Player Experiences
Challenge
Deliver unique quests/rewards to 1M+ players without latency spikes.
Solution
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Train recommendation models (PyTorch) on player behavior data stored in ClickHouse.
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Serve personalized content via RediSearch vector search (e.g., "players who like PvP get raid invites").
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Sync player segments to Unity/Unreal Engine backends using Kafka connectors.
In-Game Economy Management
Challenge
Prevent currency exploits in NFT marketplaces or virtual economies.
Solution
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Monitor transaction logs in ClickHouse for anomalies (e.g., 1000 trades/sec on a single item).
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Use Elasticsearch’s graph analysis to detect wash trading rings.
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Freeze suspicious accounts via prebuilt ClickHouse playbooks.
How TeraDB Cloud Solves Gaming Challenges
Sub-Second Latency:
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ClickHouse: Process 2M+ events/sec for real-time leaderboards and matchmaking.
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RediSearch: Deliver in-game inventory/leaderboard APIs with <10ms latency.
Cost Efficiency:
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Auto-Scaling: Spin up GPU instances for ML-driven cheat detection, scale down post-analysis.
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BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud): Use reserved instances for predictable pricing.
Advanced Anti-Cheat:
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ClickHouse ML: Deploy custom detection models (e.g., neural networks for aimbot detection).
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Elasticsearch EQL: Hunt advanced threats with MITRE ATT&CK-style queries.
Compliance & Security:
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GDPR/COPPA Compliance: Anonymize player data with Elasticsearch’s data masking.
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BYOK Encryption: Protect player PII with your AWS/GCP KMS keys.
24/7 Expert Support:
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ClickHouse Gaming Specialists: Optimize schemas for time-series telemetry.
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Elasticsearch DevOps Engineers: Tune cluster performance for live ops.
Compressed and Structured Data Storage
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Compress data up to 90% for less storage cost.
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Structure data at ingestion to minimise the query execution time.
Managed Services with Random Product Feature’s
Managed ClickHouse Services
Supercharge real-time analytics with a fully managed columnar database. Process petabytes of data at lightning speed, backed by automated scaling, security, and 24/7 expert support.
Managed Apache Kafka Services
Build fault-tolerant data pipelines with a fully managed Kafka service. Stream thousands of events per second, powered by auto-scaling brokers, geo-replication, and enterprise security.
Managed ElasticSearch Services
Deliver millisecond search & analytics with a managed ElasticSearch solution. Automate indexing, security, and compliance for log analytics, APM, or customer-facing search.
Managed Redis Services
Power real-time apps with a fully managed Redis service. Achieve microsecond latency for caching, leaderboards, and pub/sub messaging, backed by instant failover and TLS encryption.
What Our Clients Are Saying
Hear from industry leaders who have transformed their data infrastructure with TeraDB Cloud.
Michael Johnson
Runs Data Devision
“TeraDB Cloud’s real-time fraud detection system saved us individuals hundreds of thousands of dollars in possible losses. Their handled RediSearch services were essential to our achievement.”
Sophia Chen
VP of Engineering
“With the scalable infrastructure of TeraDB Cloud, we lowered latency for our gaming analytic system from 2 seconds to less than 200ms.”
Steve Preusz
Data Science Lead
“Using TeraDB Cloud, we established a completely managed healthcare data analysis pipeline.” At every point, their committed support staff guaranteed conformity and safety.”
James O’Neil
Senior Data Engineer
“In our pipelines, the smooth integration of Kafka and Elasticsearch has been revolutionary. Experts with TeraDBCloud will make sure there is no downtime throughout migration.”