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That must have been what they were thinking when they made the decision to go with Cassandra.
by akhmatova 4y ago
That must have been what they were thinking when they made the decision to go with Cassandra.
- lmm 4y agoI'm working on a system that's using Cassandra on a small scale (like, probably less than a million entities) now, it's great. Haven't had any consistency issues because we've designed our data flow properly (SQL will help you paper over a bad data flow for longer but that's a double-edged sword), and getting true just-works HA (master-master where a failover doesn't interrupt your writes) out of the box is a huge advantage over something like Postgres.
- akhmatova 4y agoOh, I don't dispute that there are valid use cases. But the above instance sounds like a variant of the "because, bwah, SQL is hard" line of thought that seems to have powered much of the (now historical) NoSQL boom.