From user-return-7283-apmail-cassandra-user-archive=cassandra.apache.org@cassandra.apache.org Wed Jul 07 00:19:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 87230 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2010 00:19:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2010 00:19:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 4394 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jul 2010 00:19:07 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 4327 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jul 2010 00:19:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 4318 invoked by uid 99); 7 Jul 2010 00:19:06 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:19:06 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [38.102.63.181] (HELO smtp-2.01.com) (38.102.63.181) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:18:59 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E1D1ADCE9 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:18:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp-2.01.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-2.01.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bEL-53cLiFkY for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:18:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: by smtp-2.01.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 2595B1AE6BB; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:18:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.122] (cpe-72-177-112-232.austin.res.rr.com [72.177.112.232]) by smtp-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6D5B1ADCE9 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:18:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4C33C7BF.6050807@fourkitchens.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:18:07 +0000 From: David Strauss Organization: Four Kitchens User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Digg 4 Preview on TWiT References: <2B4B52565669304C979DC60E52AA3F9B022CC04DC8@spnvm1183.bud.bpa.gov> <1277743872.11218.25.camel@erebus.lan> <1278245675.3878.4.camel@dehora-laptop> <1278344422.3283.18.camel@erebus.lan> <4C3306A3.70804@fourkitchens.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1517511B364A21A76D5F73D2" X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1517511B364A21A76D5F73D2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Then I'll tell my friend at Facebook to stick to topics he's qualified to speak about. :-) On 2010-07-06 13:21, Avinash Lakshman wrote: > FB Inbox Search still runs on Cassandra and will continue to do so. I > should know since I maintain it :). > =20 > Cheers > Avinash >=20 > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM, David Strauss > wrote: >=20 > On 2010-07-05 15:40, Eric Evans wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:14 +0100, Bill de h=D3ra 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 ha= d > > always used it for, Inbox Search. Last I heard, there were no pla= ns in > > place to change that. >=20 > I had the opportunity to talk with some Facebook infrastructure > engineers in San Francisco over the past few weeks. They are no lon= ger > using Cassandra, even for inbox search. >=20 > Inbox search was intended to be an initial push for using Cassandra= more > broadly, not the primary target of the Cassandra design. Unfortunat= ely, > Facebook's engineers later decided that Cassandra wasn't the right > answer to the right question for Facebook's purposes. >=20 > That decision isn't an indictment of Cassandra's capability; it's > confirmation that Cassandra isn't everything to everyone. But we al= ready > knew that. :-) >=20 > -- > David Strauss > | david@fourkitchens.com > | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] > Four Kitchens > | http://fourkitchens.com > | +1 512 454 6659 [office] > | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] >=20 >=20 --=20 David Strauss | david@fourkitchens.com | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] Four Kitchens | http://fourkitchens.com | +1 512 454 6659 [office] | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] --------------enig1517511B364A21A76D5F73D2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwzx78ACgkQZ52GCE5ilTMZZACfVfdpthRw4YGcfpV8tVwEv+fc 0JAAoIG0juAFvWe34GTqy6dRFAzinqcx =AI1a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1517511B364A21A76D5F73D2--