Cloud Imperium Games / Star Citizen
From data bottlenecks to frictionless scale
Cloud Imperium Games builds Star Citizen, a vast, persistent online universe with millions of players and dynamic in-game economies.
The Challenge
Legacy databases hit scale limits, creating infrastructure bottlenecks that slowed feature development and threatened player experience.
The Solution
Cloud Imperium adopted the Arango AI Data Platform to unify graph, document, and vector models within one high-performance engine.
With Arango, the team:
We no longer worry about data infrastructure. Arango scales and performs when it matters, freeing us to focus on building features.
— CTO, Cloud Imperium Games
Handled billions of relationships across players, ships, and items
Removed performance bottlenecks at scale
Freed developers to focus on gameplay, not infrastructure
The Impact
Gamers
Seamless, real-time multiplayer experience
Developers
Faster iteration cycles and improved reliability
CIG
Confidence in a scalable data foundation for continuous innovation