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Shopify with Alopex DB
Shopify is a service for building and running an online store. What if we rebuilt it with Alopex DB?
Updated: Oct 12, 2026
What the service does
Shopify builds and runs online stores. Products carry descriptions, images, prices, inventory, variants and tags, and inventory is tracked per variant such as size and color. The data is products, variants, inventory, orders and customers.
Where the data lives
- SQL tables: products, variants, inventory, orders and customers live in tables.
- JSON: attributes that vary by product go in a JSON column.
- Vectors: embeddings of product descriptions and images in a vector column drive similar-product recommendations.
- Columnar tables: order lines also go in a columnar table to aggregate sales by day and product.
Placing an order and reserving inventory commit in the same transaction.
Deployment
Alopex DB runs as a server that answers the storefront and admin over HTTP and gRPC. As stores grow, it scales out to an Alopex DB cluster.
Why Alopex DB fits
An online store has to get orders and inventory right, then suggest what sells. Alopex DB handles transactions, vectors and columnar aggregation in one database.
We recommend Alopex DB as the base for a store, with transactions, vectors and columnar aggregation in one database. You can start from the quickstart.