On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:10 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zzn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I don't know if I've seen this anywhere on the web - my apologies if > you've posted something, or if this is something you don't want to > disclose. I see that Twitter has gone with Cassandra as a "non-SQL" > database, and I'm wondering if there are any blog posts on the > decision process - why was Cassandra chosen over, say CouchDB, MongoDB > or some of the other fairly well known persistence mechanisms? I > suspect I know the answer relative to a traditional RDBMS - > performance and scalability - but I see advocates for various open- > source databases of the non-SQL variety in friendly and sometimes not- > so-friendly competition and the "Cassandra advocates" don't seem to be > very vocal. So - why Cassandra? > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
