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Why even use a server and mongodb behind it for that when you can straight up save the document to Firestore from the game. No servers, no mongodb maintenence.
by ssijak 6y ago
Why even use a server and mongodb behind it for that when you can straight up save the document to Firestore from the game. No servers, no mongodb maintenence.
- wgjordan 6y agoOne is document-oriented database software while the other is a fully-managed document-oriented database-as-a-service, so not at all a useful comparison. MongoDB offers a fully-managed database-as-a-service as well (Atlas), for what it's worth.
- tpetry 6y agoI swa a talk once from one of the facebook game companies who simply stored the player state in a file. There is nothing more simple! They simply loaded the files content into the memory as long as the player was playing and then serialized to file