Database Options for Online Gambling Applications

Description

Let's take a look at modern gambling applications and some of the database-related challenges they're likely to encounter on the road from startup to global powerhouse. Can choosing the right kind of database help deal with some of these challenges? In this video, we'll focus on five specific challenges (latency, scale, availability, consistency, and serializability) and assess three different types of databases (SQL, NoSQL, and Distributed SQL) to see what they can offer gambling app devs – or any app developers who need a database that with low latency, elastic scale, high availability, ironclad consistency, and serializable isolation. Try CockroachDB for yourself (it's free): https://cockroachlabs.cloud/signup 00:00 Database options for gambling apps 00:21 Gambling app UX overview 01:08 Five database challenges for modern gambling apps 06:38 Traditional SQL databases 09:33 NoSQL databases 11:38 Distributed SQL and CockroachDB 13:43 The familiarity factor 14:13 A note on complexity 15:11 Next steps