Re: Cassandra at Instagram with Dikang Gu interview by Jeff Carpenter

I agree with Jeff. I believe the _best_ part of Cassandra exists in its networking , replication , and fault tolerance. The storage engine is as dumb as disk or memory. If we can make it fast by replacing it , great. Maybe even optimize it in JVM. With new paradigms like blockchain entering

Re: Cassandra at Instagram with Dikang Gu interview by Jeff Carpenter

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Carl Mueller wrote: > Rocksandra can expand out it's non-java footprint without rearchitecting > the java codebase. Or are there serious concerns with Datastax and the > binary protocols? > > Rockssandra should eventually become

Re: Cassandra at Instagram with Dikang Gu interview by Jeff Carpenter

Again, I'd really like to get a feel for scylla vs rocksandra vs cassandra. Isn't the driver binary protocol the easiest / least redesign level of storage engine swapping? Scylla and Cassandra and Rocksandra are currently three options. Rocksandra can expand out it's non-java footprint without

Re: Cassandra at Instagram with Dikang Gu interview by Jeff Carpenter

It’s an interesting conversation. For more details about the pluggable storage engine here is the link. Blog: https://thenewstack.io/instagram-supercharges-cassandra-pluggable-rocksdb-storage-engine/ JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/CASSANDRA-13475 On Tue, Mar

Cassandra at Instagram with Dikang Gu interview by Jeff Carpenter

Just released on DataStax Distributed Data Show, DiKang Gu of Instagram interviewed by author Jeff Carpenter. Found it really interesting: Shadow clustering, migrating from 2.2 to 3.0, using the Rocks DB as a pluggable storage engine for Cassandra