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Asked: 2026-06-09T05:48:10+00:00

I am developing a Gameserver, since i have to store the progress of every

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I am developing a Gameserver, since i have to store the progress of every player, i have the question:
What it the best data Storage solution for my case?

Some facts:
At the moment, every Player is a Row in my MYsql-Database, having a unique id and name.
Every player has a World.
Every world contains a growing set of regions (as the player moves forward).
And every Region contains a set of landscapes.
Here comes the problem.

I want to add new landscapes as easy as possible, so i have this simple concept:
i have an interface landscape.java containing only one method called doit(String command)
Every implementation of a landscape is doing fancy stuff in their doit-methods without me having to change any code.

Now i have to store the world of every player, here are some ideas/options i thought of

  • Storing everythin in a database would require me to create tables for every implementation of a landscape. would be a bad solution imo

  • Serialisation was another idea, perfect because i do not have to worry about anything simply cast to landscape and fine. But i have my doubts, how should i edit the data, whats to do when i update the classes, how do i roll out changes to the data.

  • Frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc. (i have no deep knowledge in them, could this be helpfull in my case?)

  • Writing my own file-format, changes in my strategie or other ideas?

Some perhaps inportant information at the end:

  • Saved data has to be editable

  • storing is not time-critical and should be done in normal time

  • Since all data is cached in memory, i do not really care about it being fast, it more likely has to be reliable

  • possible to use are PostgreSQL/Mysql and Filesystem.

I am not experienced in this field, so please give me a hint if i’m going a wrong way 😉

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t see anything which suggest you should chose one approach over another.

    Some people will have a preference and I would go with whatever you prefer.

    If you are going to Serialize your data, I would use a Text Serialization which makes it easy to edit it in a text editor. e.g. XML, JSon, CSV.

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