I wasn’t familiar with Gizzard either so I thought I’d take a look. The first things on their github readme is: *NB: This project is currently not recommended as a base for new consumers.* (And no commits since 2013)
So, Cassandra definitely looks like a better choice as your datastore for a new project. Cheers Ben On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 12:41 Manoj Khangaonkar <khangaon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not that familiar with gizzard but with gizzard + mysql , you have > multiple moving parts in the system that need to managed separately. You'll > need the mysql expert for mysql and the gizzard expert to manage the > distributed part. It can be argued that long term this will have higher > adminstration cost > > Cassandra's value add is its simple peer to peer architecture that is easy > to manage - a single database solution that is distributed, scalable, > highly available etc. In other words, once you gain expertise cassandra, > you get everything in one package. > > regards > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Sikander Rafiq <hafiz_ra...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm exploring Cassandra for handling large data sets for mobile app, but > i'm not clear where it stands. > > > If we use MySQL as underlying database and Gizzard for building custom > distributed databases (with arbitrary storage technology) and Memcached for > highly queried data, then where lies Cassandra? > > > As i have read that Twitter uses both Cassandra and Gizzard. Please > explain me where Cassandra will act. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Regards, > > Sikander > > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > > > > > -- > http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/ >
