Today, October 21, 2026, I am really excited to announce that LioranDB v2 Alpha has officially launched!
We actually launched it two days ago, on October 19, and I wanted to share our progress, production experience, performance benchmarks, and everything we have achieved so far.
After spending more than a year developing my own NoSQL document database, seeing it running in production and powering real applications is a completely different feeling.
And damn, the experience has been crazy!
15+ Days of Production Testing Without a Crash
Before announcing LioranDB v2 Alpha, we had already been testing the database in a production environment for more than 15 days.
During this testing period, LioranDB ran continuously without a crash, while delivering great performance with efficient memory and CPU usage.
One of our most exciting observations was its resource consumption.
On a VPS with 2 vCPU cores, LioranDB was running with approximately:
- 100,000 documents
- 345 MB RAM usage
- 2 vCPU cores available
- 15+ days of continuous production testing without a crash
For a database engine that we have been developing from scratch in Rust, these results were incredibly encouraging.
Of course, we still have a lot of optimization, stability testing, and improvements ahead of us, but seeing these numbers in our own production environment was a huge milestone.
I Migrated My Own Backends From MongoDB to LioranDB
This is probably the most exciting part for me personally.
I am now using my own database in my backends!
I migrated my backend applications from MongoDB to LioranDB, and so far, everything has been running smoothly.
The database is performing well, memory usage is efficient, CPU utilization is under control, and the overall experience has been great.
Just imagine spending more than a year building a database, fixing crashes, optimizing memory, rewriting components, and testing millions of documents.
And then, one day, you actually replace MongoDB in your own applications with the database you built.
That feeling is something else. ❤️
For me, LioranDB is no longer just a development project. It is becoming infrastructure that I actually depend on.
Performance Benchmarks: 15,000 Operations Per Second!
Now, let's talk about performance.
During our VPS benchmarking, LioranDB reached approximately 15,000 operations per second.
Here is the breakdown:
| Metric | Observed throughput |
|---|---|
| Write operations | 7,000 writes/sec |
| Read operations | 8,000 reads/sec |
| Combined throughput | 15,000 ops/sec |
| VPS CPU allocation | 2 vCPU cores |
15K operations per second on a VPS!
That was crazy as hell for us.
These are observed results from our own testing, not a claim that every workload or deployment will achieve the same throughput. Performance depends on document size, concurrency, query patterns, hardware, and other factors.
We are continuing to work on improving performance, memory efficiency, and long-running stability.
Our goal is not just to achieve impressive benchmark numbers. We want to build a database that developers can trust with their real applications.
We Also Launched LioranDB Cloud Service (LCS)!
Alongside the database engine, we have launched LioranDB Cloud Service (LCS), our managed database hosting platform.
Developers can now create and manage their own LioranDB instances without having to manage the database infrastructure themselves.
And we have already reached our first small but meaningful milestone!
8 developers have registered on LioranDB Cloud, and 4 of them are already using LioranDB in their backends and projects.
I know these numbers might look small compared to established database companies.
But for me, they mean a lot.
We spent so much time developing the engine, fixing issues, testing stability, and building the cloud infrastructure.
Now, seeing other developers actually create instances and integrate LioranDB into their projects is an incredible experience.
We are finally moving beyond development and into real-world usage.
And that is exactly what we need: real developers, real applications, real workloads, and genuine feedback.
What's Next? LioranDB v2 Alpha Stable
Our next major milestone is already planned.
LioranDB v2 Alpha Stable is scheduled to launch on December 29, 2026.
Until then, our focus will remain on:
- Improving long-running stability and reliability.
- Optimizing memory and CPU efficiency.
- Fixing issues discovered through real production workloads.
- Improving the developer and cloud experience.
- Gathering genuine feedback from early adopters.
- Making LioranDB more reliable for real-world applications.
We still have a long journey ahead of us.
There will be bugs, performance bottlenecks, architectural challenges, and probably many more sleepless nights debugging Rust code.
But that's part of building infrastructure from scratch.
Building India's Developer Infrastructure 🇮🇳
I started developing LioranDB with a vision of building developer infrastructure from India and reducing dependency on foreign infrastructure providers.
Through Lioran Developer Solutions, we are working toward building our own database, object storage, authentication systems, and other backend infrastructure.
LioranDB is one part of that bigger vision.
We are still early, and I know there is a lot of work left before we can compete with established database technologies.
But every successful deployment, every performance improvement, and every developer who tries LioranDB brings us one step closer.
Thank You!
I genuinely want to thank everyone who has supported this journey.
To the developers who registered on LioranDB Cloud, the early users who trusted our database with their projects, and everyone who shared feedback or encouraged us, thank you so much!
After more than a year of development, seeing my own database running in my backends and now in other developers' applications is something I cannot fully describe.
We have come a long way, but this is only the beginning.
LioranDB v2 Alpha is here. Let's keep building! ❤️
If you are a backend developer, I would really appreciate it if you gave LioranDB a try and shared your genuine feedback.
Try LioranDB Cloud: https://app.liorandb.com
Documentation: https://docs.liorandb.com
Website: https://liorandb.com
Thank you for being part of this journey.
Swaraj Puppalwar
Founder & CTO, Lioran Developer Solutions
Building India's Developer Infrastructure 🇮🇳
