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While that would have made scaling easier they would then run into a different set of massive problems because Cassandra isn't a relational database.
by meritt 11y ago
While that would have made scaling easier they would then run into a different set of massive problems because Cassandra isn't a relational database.
- brianwawok 11y agoBut neither is a sharded database. You can't do fancy joins and groups across 400 shards. (Well you can, but you are writing your own code to split up requests and stick it back together.. which is the same thing you would need to do in Cassandra).