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I wonder if being part of Facebook (from which Cassandra originated) has anything to do with the choice for Cassandra over other databases.
by ma2rten 13y ago
I wonder if being part of Facebook (from which Cassandra originated) has anything to do with the choice for Cassandra over other databases.
- rbranson 13y agoI assure you it did not.
- lobster_johnson 13y agoApparently Facebook is not using Cassandra much. For their messaging project they ended up with HBase instead of Cassandra [1]. I don't know if the system replaced the earlier Cassandra system, or complemented it. [1] http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1583884165/facebook-the-underlying-technology-of-messages-using http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1583884165/facebook-the-unde...
- zht 13y agoIt has been replaced entirely [1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/inside-facebook-messages-application-server/10150162742108920 https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/inside-f...