The question just as easily be asked, why not rewrite it in Erlang ? Probably lots of advantages to be gained there, the ability to upgrade on the fly, native message passing, functional programming paradigm ?
But as Brandon says, you would be throwing away so much work, would it be worth it ? Andy On 19 Dec 2013, at 19:22, Roman Vasilyev <rvasil...@netflix.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Don't want to rise "holy war". Just let me share my crazy thoughts. > I believe it could improve Cassandra speed and robustness. > > What people will say if I propose to have Cassandra engine written in C/C++, > and this engine will give you ability to run extensions in Java, Groovy and > bunch other languages like Perl/Python/Ruby? > > I just want to understand for myself does this solution will be useful or I'm > looking in wrong direction? > > Thank you for reading. The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096.
