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What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot
Game servers face a dilemma, requiring both the raw performance of game engines and the transactional safety and durability of traditional databases. Typhon is an embedded .NET database engine that solves this by speaking the native language of game servers and synthesizing best practices from both fields. It employs game engine principles like cache locality and zero-copy access, while integrating database features such as ACID transactions with per-component MVCC, advanced indexing, and configurable durability.
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