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The article compares Redis to Cassandra which means comparing apples to oranges for their use case. It would have been meaningful if they explained why they cho
by ozgurcayci 13y ago
The article compares Redis to Cassandra which means comparing apples to oranges for their use case. It would have been meaningful if they explained why they chose Casssandra, instead of for example Hbase.
- scribu 13y agoI was thinking the same thing. "We are very happy with the hammer we are currently using. Previously, we were using pliers to hammer nails and we saw that it wasn't very efficient."
- dc2447 13y agoExactly the point I was thinking
- tszming 13y agoAccording to the article, the interviewee used to work at DataStax (leader in Cassandra) before joining Instagram. I guess this is one of the reason why they first considered Cassandra and it turned out to be very successful. Biased or not, it is always good to have an engineer with deep understanding on the database, rather than just being an ordinary user.