Replacing Redis and Elasticsearch for improved performance with lower total cost of ownership
Disney+ Hotstar, India’s most popular streaming service, accounts for 40% of the global Disney+ subscriber base. Disney+ Hotstar currently offers over 100,000 hours of content on-demand, as well as livestreams of the world’s most-watched sporting events (IPL, with over 25 million concurrent viewers).
Read this paper to learn how Disney+ Hotstar architected their systems to handle massive data loads, including:
- Why they chose to replace both Redis and Elasticsearch
- Their requirements for massively scalable data infrastructure and evolving data models
- How they migrated their data to Scylla Cloud, ScyllaDB’s fully managed NoSQL database-as-a-service, without suffering downtime