This is a ridiculous statement by some newbie I guess , We today have a 150 node Cassandra cluster running Inbox search supporting close to 500M users and over 150TB of data growing rapidly everyday.
I am on pager for this monster :) so its pretty funny to hear this statement. - Prashant On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Avinash Lakshman <avinash.laksh...@gmail.com > wrote: > FB Inbox Search still runs on Cassandra and will continue to do so. I > should know since I maintain it :). > > Cheers > Avinash > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM, David Strauss <da...@fourkitchens.com>wrote: > >> On 2010-07-05 15:40, Eric Evans wrote: >> > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:14 +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote: >> >> This person's understanding is that Facebook 'no longer contributes to >> >> nor uses Cassandra.': >> >> >> >> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/17/beyond-cassandra/ >> > >> > Last I heard, Facebook was still using Cassandra for what they had >> > always used it for, Inbox Search. Last I heard, there were no plans in >> > place to change that. >> >> I had the opportunity to talk with some Facebook infrastructure >> engineers in San Francisco over the past few weeks. They are no longer >> using Cassandra, even for inbox search. >> >> Inbox search was intended to be an initial push for using Cassandra more >> broadly, not the primary target of the Cassandra design. Unfortunately, >> Facebook's engineers later decided that Cassandra wasn't the right >> answer to the right question for Facebook's purposes. >> >> That decision isn't an indictment of Cassandra's capability; it's >> confirmation that Cassandra isn't everything to everyone. But we already >> knew that. :-) >> >> -- >> David Strauss >> | da...@fourkitchens.com >> | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] >> Four Kitchens >> | http://fourkitchens.com >> | +1 512 454 6659 [office] >> | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] >> >> >
