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Wait, does this mean Cassandra == "outdated" by a "modern startup's" standards? I know its a couple of years old (4, says Wikipedia), but...really?
by achompas 14y ago
Wait, does this mean Cassandra == "outdated" by a "modern startup's" standards? I know its a couple of years old (4, says Wikipedia), but...really?
- SkyMarshal 14y agoThat was Techcrunch's characterization of it, not a direct quote from Borthwick or anyone at Betaworks.
- achompas 14y agoGood point--I was just wondering if anyone had a comment on that thought. Sounds ridiculous to me...
- duaneb 14y agoReddit, Netflix, and Facebook all use Cassandra. I think Techcrunch may have A) misunderstood or B) been referring to archaic PHP code. EDIT: Actually, it looks like TC has a history of believing Cassandra = Bad for digg.com: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/digg-struggles-vp-engineering-door/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/digg-struggles-vp-engineeri...
- achompas 14y agoI was under the impression Facebook replaced Cassandra in their stack with HBase. Yes, I forgot about Netflix! Not only do they use it, but they've provided tons of excellent tools for it (Astyanax, Priam) and blog about it very frequently.
- duaneb 14y agoYes; Facebook has since abandoned Cassandra.
- Shank 14y agoIt's not necessarily that, but when v4 launched, they experienced a giant problem with their infrastructure. Likely the "fix" was to increase performance versus fix the problem programatically. Hence their previous statements. Kevin's statement was in reference to them switching completely to NoSQL and not knowing how to scale it properly.