
Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS)
DOTS includes technologies and packages that deliver a data-oriented design approach to building games in Unity. Applying data-oriented design to a game’s architecture empowers creators to scale processing in a highly performant manner.

ECS for Unity
ECS for Unity (Entity Component System) enables you to build more ambitious games. It’s a data-oriented framework compatible with GameObjects, enabling seasoned Unity creators to achieve more thanks to an unprecedented level of control and determinism.

Burst Compiler
Burst is a compiler that translates from IL/.NET bytecode to highly optimized native code. It uses the industry-proven LLVM compiler infrastructure to give game creators native code performance from C#. Burst also exposes CPU intrinsics, making it possible to fine-tune performance-critical code.

C# Job System
This system allows Unity developers to take advantage of multi-core computing platforms with parallelized code that can run safely and at speed. The C# Job System exposes Unity’s internal C++ Job System, giving Unity creators the ability to run their scripts alongside Unity’s internal processing.
DOTS in Production
Ramen VR and Electric Square
Learn how ECS for Unity helped Ramen VR scale up gameplay for Zenith: The Last City, a VR MMO; and how Electric Square used ECS to achieve deterministic gameplay for QA, design loops, and streaming for Detonation Racing, a fast-paced Apple Arcade racing game.

Blackbird Interactive
“Throughout the development of Hardspace: Shipbreaker, DOTS opened up the possibilities of what was even conceivable to do. We had processes that initially took an hour now take only 100 milliseconds after implementing DOTS.” – Richard Harrison, technical director on Hardspace: Shipbreaker





