Scaling applications

Quickbase is designed for horizontal scaling of the platform and vertical scaling of applications. Vertical scaling of your application has many dimensions.

Compute

Quickbase operates in the cloud, running on modern hardware. This helps keep your applications running fast.

Runtime engine

Speed improvements made to the runtime engine automatically benefit your new and existing applications.

Application architecture

Unlike traditional software development technologies, Quickbase involves minimal maintenance for application builders.

Our role in keeping your applications running smoothly includes:

Continually tuning the performance of the platform, so you wake up some days and your applications are automatically faster without you needing to take action.
Providing tools to help you manage your application, like deep analysis, automating tuning, and a view that watches your application’s traffic and makes actionable recommendations for improving performance.
Offering our expertise to help you when you need it, from tech support to services and partners.

And builders can take some easy steps to ensure that their application scales, such as:

Building a suite of many discrete applications, each with their own purpose, rather than building larger, monolithic applications
Purging or archiving unused data
Cleaning up obsolete or unused fields
Setting field defaults like searchable fields, default sort, and default columns accordingly
Optimizing UI pages to move expensive infrequently used data behind links or tabs

For more information, please see our community post on keeping apps running smoothly as they grow.