Flash-memory vendor Fusion-io announced that internet-music-streaming service Spotify is using its technology to accelerate its music databases. The global digital music service has adopted the Fusion ioMemory platform in its data centers to rapidly deliver music from its Apache Cassandra database to listeners.

Patrik Torstensson, architect at Spotify, said the service's users expected fast response across all of their devices. “Fusion ioMemory gives us the speed and scalability we need to grow our footprint worldwide with new services and scale our user base by the millions,” he said.

Gary Orenstein, senior VP of products at Fusion-io, said, “Spotify’s powerful database is essential to quickly serving up tracks while promoting new music discovery. The Spotify database team will continue to deliver on high customer expectations for millions of users worldwide with Fusion ioMemory, which is uniquely designed as a platform for application acceleration.”

Integrated into data center servers, the Fusion ioMemory platform is built to accelerate organizations’ most important applications. The open-source Apache Cassandra database that powers the Spotify music platform is such an application for the streaming service.

Unlike solid state disks, Fusion ioMemory platforms like ioScale are architected to manage flash-like memory, which ensures low-latency performance for databases in hyper-scale data centers.