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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:33:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra
From: Marty Greenia <martygreenia@gmail.com>
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
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It almost seems counter-intuitive. For analytics, you'd think they'd want a
database that supports more sophisticated query functionality (sql). Whereas
for everyday tweet storage, something fast and high-throughput (cassandra)
makes sense.

I'd be curious to here the details as well.

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:25 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice link.
>
> From what I understood, they are not using it to store tweets but rather
> will use mysql?  I wish they went into more detail as to why...
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 <
> twkochheiser@bpa.gov> wrote:
>
>> A good read.
>>
>> http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/09/twitter-analytics-mysql/
>>
>> Todd
>
>
>

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It almost seems counter-intuitive. For analytics, you&#39;d think they&#39;=
d want a database that supports more sophisticated query functionality (sql=
). Whereas for everyday tweet storage, something fast and high-throughput (=
cassandra) makes sense.<br>
<br>I&#39;d be curious to here the details as well.<br><br><div class=3D"gm=
ail_quote">On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:25 AM, S Ahmed <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;=
<a href=3D"mailto:sahmed1020@gmail.com">sahmed1020@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>=
 wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Nice link.<div><b=
r></div><div>From what I understood, they are not using it to store tweets =
but rather will use mysql? =A0I wish they went into more detail as to why..=
.<div>
<div></div><div class=3D"h5"><br><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sat=
, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 <span dir=3D"ltr"=
>&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:twkochheiser@bpa.gov" target=3D"_blank">twkochheiser=
@bpa.gov</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A good read.<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/09/twitter-analytics-mysql/" targe=
t=3D"_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/09/twitter-analytics-mysql/</a><=
br>
<font color=3D"#888888"><br>
Todd</font></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>

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