I don't know what your background is, but I'm really encouraged by the fact that I've worked my whole career without having to deal with people that behave like

I don't know what your background is, but I'm really encouraged by the fact that I've worked my whole career without having to deal with people that behave like you. > 1) scaling is easy . . . oh casandra. Where you can't have C and don't care about P. This isn't about teaching me the CAP theorem. I know the CAP theorem. I know the tradeoffs. I've built and managed systems that handle hundreds of billions of events a day, writing millions of writes a second into a thousand cassandra nodes. You can have C, if you want it - you dont get transactions with rollbacks, but that doesn't mean you dont have consistency. > 2) Let me tell you about banks. I used to work for banks. Banks do not use systems that are eventually consistent All this time, I thought ING was a bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqdX23u_Mk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqdX23u_Mk Also: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on-why-banks-are-base-not-acid-availability.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on... > 3) There is no cassandra world that you speak of. This is utter bullshit. I see, lame troll or wholly clueless. Guess I'm done.