> From: Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> > Can't we just all get along? :-)
My personal introduction to Cassandra came maybe in the 2009 timeframe. We evaluated it and HBase at the time and chose HBase. No point to discuss why, the world has changed many times over. From there, my involvement in the HBase project grew and I didn't think of or hear about Cassandra for a long time. Then began an aggressive marketing campaign by Cassandra proponents that spoke negatively about HBase at every opportunity. It was everywhere whether one cared about such things or not. There was also an untrue (but easy to fudge with "marketing" given the technology differences are complex and nuanced) and quite insulting assertion that Cassandra is a superset of HBase. I believe this persists even today. So, no, frankly we cannot get along. If this were a passionless technical discussion that would not be the case. However, from my perspective, which I believe is shared by others on the HBase side, the Cassandra project is run by asshats and some of their boosters share that unfortunate trait. At this point I'd like to go back to ignoring Cassandra, and hopefully will not have occasion to deal with "Cassandra vs. HBase" again for many months. Best regards, - Andy
