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Spotify Engineering·Apr 12, 2026·10 min read·Marcus Vesterlund49

Switching user database on a running system | Spotify Engineering

All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra database instead of Postgres. The final switch was made on May 11th, and we, the team responsible for user login at Spotify, would like to tell you a little bit about this endeavour.

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