Thanks, second funniest thing I've read this month!
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matt Su <MATT.SU@morningstar.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all your guys’ information.
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> This thread make us raised a concern: we choose Cassandra because
> FB,Twitter,Digg are using them, and we’re doubting whether Cassandra is
> definitely trustable.
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> The question is what action will we take, if after a few time, these big
> tech company really start to leave Cassandra.
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> Will we have the confidence to trust Apache Cassandra, instead of following
> these tech company’s storage solution. J
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> Thanks and Regards.
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> From: Prashant Malik [mailto:pmalik@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:36 PM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org; bill@dehora.net
> Subject: Re: Digg 4 Preview on TWiT
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> I have gone through the appropriate channel here at FB to make sure that
> the correct information is presented.
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> the article has now been updated to
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> " (Update: just for reference, we’re told via email that Facebook, “no
> longer contributes to nor uses Cassandra.” Update 2: we are now being told –
> and Facebook has confirmed – that Cassandra is actually still employed by
> the company for, among other things, Inbox Search.) "
>
> Thanks
> Prashant
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Bill de hÓra <bill@dehora.net> wrote:
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> Nonetheless, thanks for clearing that one up. And that's some serious
> volume you've got there :)
>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:01 -0700, Prashant Malik wrote:
>> This is a ridiculous statement by some newbie I guess , We today have
>> a 150 node Cassandra cluster running Inbox search supporting close to
>> 500M users
>> and over 150TB of data growing rapidly everyday.
>>
>> I am on pager for this monster :) so its pretty funny to hear this
>> statement.
>>
>> - Prashant
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>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Avinash Lakshman
>> <avinash.lakshman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> FB Inbox Search still runs on Cassandra and will continue to
>> do so. I should know since I maintain it :).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Avinash
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>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM, David Strauss
>> <david@fourkitchens.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-07-05 15:40, Eric Evans wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:14 +0100, Bill de hÓra
>> wrote:
>> >> This person's understanding is that Facebook 'no
>> longer contributes to
>> >> nor uses Cassandra.':
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/17/beyond-cassandra/
>> >
>> > Last I heard, Facebook was still using Cassandra for
>> what they had
>> > always used it for, Inbox Search. Last I heard,
>> there were no plans in
>> > place to change that.
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>>
>> I had the opportunity to talk with some Facebook
>> infrastructure
>> engineers in San Francisco over the past few weeks.
>> They are no longer
>> using Cassandra, even for inbox search.
>>
>> Inbox search was intended to be an initial push for
>> using Cassandra more
>> broadly, not the primary target of the Cassandra
>> design. Unfortunately,
>> Facebook's engineers later decided that Cassandra
>> wasn't the right
>> answer to the right question for Facebook's purposes.
>>
>> That decision isn't an indictment of Cassandra's
>> capability; it's
>> confirmation that Cassandra isn't everything to
>> everyone. But we already
>> knew that. :-)
>>
>> --
>> David Strauss
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