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] > > > >
