Built for the workloads where memory has to be fast and provable.
Two kinds of systems demand more than a generic vector store: the ones with a latency budget measured in milliseconds, and the ones with an evidentiary burden measured in years. CortexDB serves both.
Low-latency systems
When a round trip is a tail-latency event, and a tail-latency event is a dropped customer.
Memory at the speed of speech.
Conversational voice agents have a ~200ms latency budget before they sound unnatural. CortexDB delivers full long-term recall inside it.
Determinism for the order book.
Tick data and order events need predictable storage latency — not a query planner that gets cute under load.
Decisioning before the bid window closes.
Real-time bidding gives you ~10ms after the auction call. Profile lookups can't be a round trip.
High-cardinality storage that doesn't fold under write pressure.
Metrics, traces, and logs at modern scale crush row stores. CortexDB is built for the append-heavy, time-bounded shape of telemetry.
Session state without the Redis tax.
Leaderboards, matchmaking, and player profiles need millisecond reads and durable writes — usually solved with two systems duct-taped together.
Compliance-heavy systems
When the auditor, regulator, or examiner will ask — and the answer needs to be cryptographic, not anecdotal.
An audit log your auditor can actually use.
SOX, MiFID II, and SEC Rule 17a-4 all demand the same thing: immutable, reproducible, time-stamped records. CortexDB stores data that way by design.
PHI handling that survives a BAA review.
Patient data needs encryption, scoped access, and an audit trail granular enough to answer "who saw what, when?"
Air-gap friendly. Telemetry-free.
FedRAMP, IL5, and classified environments don't tolerate phone-home telemetry or unsigned dependencies. CortexDB ships without either.
Data that stays where the law says it stays.
GDPR doesn't care about your replication topology. Personal data leaves the region only when you say it does.
Don't see your workload? It probably still fits.
The same engine that serves a voice agent in 180ms serves a federal examiner's 7-year subpoena. Tell us what you're building.