> > Can't we just all get along? :-) > ... > 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. >
I have an even more unfortunate position than Andy in this. I started out as perhaps the one administrator who was most qualified to be an Apache Cassandra proponent. I was the data director at the flagship premier big-data shop that was to be using this newly open-sourced Apache Cassandra. When the FUD started flying, I had the unfortunate circumstance to decide: should I continue to be part of this community that Andy so accurately portrays as lead by a bunch of asshats, or should I move on to a community of professionals that care about technology and big data, rather than self image? I guess in hindsight the decision wasn't so hard. 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. > Hear hear! -- Tim Ellis Data Architect, Riot Games