This article is extremely similar to almost every other "OMG! We used Cassandra and it was nothing like a SQL database!" article by Netflix, Spotify, and so man

This article is extremely similar to almost every other "OMG! We used Cassandra and it was nothing like a SQL database!" article by Netflix, Spotify, and so many more. The fact that every single one contains the same 6 or 7 self-inflicted issues is pretty funny to me. I mean, I thought we lived in the age of the Google Dev. Cassandra does require you to know more of it's internals than most other data stores. Unfortunately, the move to CQL and very SQL-like names for things that are nothing at ALL like their SQL counterparts is not helping. Also, our own personal death by tombstone: A developer who didn't even know those existed checked in some logic that would write null into a column every time a thing succeeded. After that passed QA and went into production, all hell broke loose with queries timing out everywhere. SUCH FUN.