How Aspire Comps replaced 5 backend tools with SurrealDB and scaled to 700,000 users

Aspire Comps, a UK-based retail prize competition company, transitioned from Firebase to SurrealDB to address performance issues and streamline operations, resulting in a scalable and efficient infrastructure supporting over 700,000 users. The migration consolidated five backend services into one, leveraging SurrealDB's capabilities to unify application logic and data with enhanced access control and support for serverless functions. This change reduced system complexity and improved performance by handling high concurrency without additional optimizations, allowing for flexible modeling and native delivery of search, access control, and event handling. SurrealDB's multi-model engine supports rapid iteration for new competition formats and customer flows, preparing Aspire Comps for future machine-learning workloads and advanced search capabilities.