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Interesting that they bailed on Cassandra and went back to HBase.
by equark 16y ago
Interesting that they bailed on Cassandra and went back to HBase.
- benatkin 16y agoWhere, and in what context did you hear that? What I saw of the announcement (the blog post and a small part of the presentation) didn't seem very technical. Was this in response to a question someone asked or did someone take time at the event to talk infrastructure?
- atlbeer 16y agoThe presentation explicitly said they opted not to use Cassandra and are using hBase as the storage engine for this project.
- equark 16y agohttp://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging/ >In order to make this work, “we had to completely rebuild >the infrastructure that this system is build on,” Bosworth >noted. People are aware of Facebook’s Cassandra system, but >now they’ve built something new called hBase (working >alongside the open source community again).
- groys 16y agoEngineering Blog post about it, including the reason for choosing hbase, http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-underlying-technology-of-messages/454991608919 http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-under...