CMGE is a leading international gaming company with a focus on intellectual property (IP). With this focus on IP, CMGE provides high-quality IP-based games for players worldwide, and has created a highly competitive IP gaming ecosystem. "Rakshasa Street: Born to be King" is an action role playing game (ARPG) based on the iconic Chinese manga, "Rakshasa Street". Before this game was officially released, the game already had more than 7 million subscribers.

While ensuring the original IP content of the game, CMGE introduced a new style of ARPG gameplay where you pair up with spirit creatures and join battle together. This kind of gameplay demanded additional performance, scalability, and stability requirements from the servers. The Huawei Cloud database team offered a solution that integrated GaussDB (for MySQL) and Document Database Service (DDS) to effectively facilitate the launch of Rakshasa Street: Born to be King. By isolating read/write operations from each other, the game is able to handle millions of concurrent requests during peak hours. Decoupled storage and compute ensured ultra-low latency and stable game running. The instance classes of GaussDB (for MySQL) could be changed in batches, and the disk space could be quickly scaled without affecting workloads, which made batch O&M easier.

Rakshasa Street: Born to be King was rapidly launched, thanks to the dependable Huawei Cloud databases. The entire process, from internal testing to rollout, was accomplished within a month, 50% faster than was expected. The game launched smoothly on its first day, providing a seamless gaming experience for millions of players and quickly climbing to the top spot among the most popular games on Huawei AppGallery.