Thanks, second funniest thing I've read this month!
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matt Su <matt...@morningstar.com> wrote: > Thanks for all your guys’ information. > > 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. > > The question is what action will we take, if after a few time, these big > tech company really start to leave Cassandra. > > > > Will we have the confidence to trust Apache Cassandra, instead of following > these tech company’s storage solution. J > > > > Thanks and Regards. > > ________________________________ > > From: Prashant Malik [mailto:pma...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:36 PM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org; b...@dehora.net > Subject: Re: Digg 4 Preview on TWiT > > > > I have gone through the appropriate channel here at FB to make sure that > the correct information is presented. > > the article has now been updated to > > " (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 <b...@dehora.net> wrote: > > 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 >> > >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Avinash Lakshman >> <avinash.laksh...@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 >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM, David Strauss >> <da...@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. >> >> >> 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 >> | da...@fourkitchens.com >> | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] >> Four Kitchens >> | http://fourkitchens.com >> | +1 512 454 6659 [office] >> | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] >> >> >> >> > >
