Gay social networking app Hornet upgrades Cassandra to improve community experience
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Hornet worked with the DataStax Luna consulting service on Apache Cassandra, to improve storage requirements and free up resources for future development.
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Hornet is one of the world s most popular social networking apps for the gay community. It has 30 million members worldwide and has become the most popular app of its kind in countries such as France, Russia, Brazil, Turkey and Taiwan.
Combining popular elements of other social networks, Hornet allows users in the gay community to connect with others through messaging, update stories to their profiles and also post to a newsfeed. And all of these interactive features require petabytes and petabytes of data.
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DataStax Shows Strong Momentum with New Customers, Partners and Products
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) DataStax today revealed that it is seeing strong adoption of its open, multi-cloud data stack among leading brands as enterprises increasingly embrace DataStax’s offerings including the DataStax Astra serverless cloud database and DataStax Enterprise to build and run modern data apps.
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On-premises fans hoping for news regarding Cosmos DB and Azure Stack were, however, to be disappointed, as Microsoft told us: We have nothing to share about Cosmos DB on Azure Stack HCI at this time. We do offer customers the ability to manage their hybrid deployments using Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, which is part of the Cosmos DB family.
It s not quite the same, though, is it?
Still, Microsoft significantly upped the freebies on offer for those happy to sign up for Azure. The free tier has increased to 1,000 request units per second of provisioned throughput with 25GB of storage monthly for the lifetime of one Azure Cosmos DB account per Azure subscription. This quite the jump from the previous 400 RU/s and 5GB.
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