yes. On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 2:01 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
> Does all of this Scylla talk really even belong on the Cassandra user > mailing list in the first place? > > > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 4:07 PM Jeff Jirsa <jji...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 2017-03-11 22:33 (-0700), Dor Laor <d...@scylladb.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2017-03-10 09:57 (-0800), Rakesh Kumar wrote: > > > > Cassanda vs Scylla is a valid comparison because they both are > > > compatible. Scylla is a drop-in replacement for Cassandra. > > > > > > No, they aren't, and no, it isn't > > > > > > > Jeff is angry with us for some reason. I don't know why, it's natural > that > > when a new opponent there are objections and the proof lies on us. > > I'm not angry. When I'm angry I send emails with paragraphs of expletives. > It doesn't happen very often. > > This is an open source ASF project, it's not about fighting for market > share against startups who find it necessary to inflate their level of > compatibility to sell support contracts, it's about providing software that > people can use (with a license that makes it easy to use). I don't work for > a company that makes money selling Cassandra based solutions and you're not > an opponent. > > > > > Scylla IS a drop in replacement for C*. We support the same CQL (from > > version 1.7 it's cql 3.3.1, protocol v4), the same SStable format (based > on > > 2.1.8). > > Scylla doesn't even run on all of the supported operating systems, let > alone have feature parity or network level compatibility (which you'd > probably need if you REALLY want to be drop-in > stop-one-cassandra-node-swap-binaries-start-it-up > compatible, which is what your site used to claim, but obviously isn't > supported). You support a subset of one query language and can read and > write one sstable format. You do it with great supporting tech and a great > engineering team, but you're not compatible, and if I were your cofounder > I'd ask you to focus on the tech strengths and not your drop-in > compatibility, so engineers who care about facts don't grow to resent your > public lies. > > I've used a lot of databases in my life, but I don't know that I've ever > had someone call me angry because I pointed out that database A wasn't > compatible with database B, but I guess I'll chalk it up to 2017 and the > year of fake news / alternative facts. > > Hugs and kisses, > - Jeff > >
