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.