Thanks. Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:48:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Facebook Cassandra From: edlinuxg...@gmail.com To: user@cassandra.apache.org
As it relates to c* http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/ladis2009/papers/Lakshman-ladis2009.PDF We have built, implemented, and operated a storage sys-tem providing scalability, high performance, and wide appli- cability. We have empirically demonstrated that Cassandracan support a very high update throughput while deliver- ing low latency. Future works involves adding compression,ability to support atomicity across keys and secondary index support. Why doesn't facebook use the cloud? Does that mean you should not use the cloud? Why does facebook use scribe and not flume? Why does facebook use thrift and not avro or protobuf? What I am trying to get at is technical decisions are very environment specific. >From other talks I have seen facebook breaks there hbase into "cells" of 100 >nodes. http://www.slideshare.net/brizzzdotcom/facebook-messages-hbase See slide 23 No one else I know claims to do this. Again should you do this? On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com> wrote: On 10/04/2013 11:46 AM, Baskar Duraikannu wrote: Good evening. We are using Cassandra for a while. I have been faced with a question "why did facebook drop Cassandra" over and over again. I could not find a good answer to this question on the internet. Could you please help me with the question? Quora seems to be a good place to ask these questions: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Facebook-pick-HBase-instead-of-Cassandra-for-the-new-messaging-platform http://www.quora.com/search?q=cassandra+facebook Blair
