@otto: I believe that the high throughput bulk input use case will be difficult for a relational db (e.g. postgres) to handle. It will be interesting to see how well cassandra can handle the queries that people want to run. Tradeoffs...
@dario: RestBASE and Cassandra are definitely different things; we should take care to not conflate them. -Toby On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > p.s. I will never drink Bud Lite Lime. Like, never. > > > You have the wrong attitude. Pretend it is beer-soda, not beer. Beer + > sprite is yummy! > > (I’ll let someone else figure out how this advice also applies to the > database analogy.) > > > > > > > On Jun 8, 2015, at 19:52, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > As always, I'd recommend that we go with tech we are familiar with -- >> mysql or cassandra. We have a cassandra committer on staff who would be >> able to answer these questions in detail. >> >> >> WMF uses PostGRES for some things, no? Or is that is just in labs? >> > > Since this data is meant to be fully public and queryable in any way, we > could put it in the PostgreSQL instance on labs. We should check with labs > folks, perhaps horse trade some hardware, but I think that would be a > splendid solution. > > However, and I'm trying to understate this in case people are not familiar > with my hyperbolic style, I'd rather drink Bud Lite Lime than use MySQL for > this. MySQL is suited for a lot of things, but analytics is not one of > them. > > p.s. I will never drink Bud Lite Lime. Like, never. > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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