I've heard some rumors about Facebook abandoning Cassandra. Don't know whether it's true.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Markus Jelsma <[email protected]> wrote: > They also use the column oriented database Apache Cassandra which is also > supported as storage backend by Gora. I can, much like Apache CouchDB, scale > very well. > > http://cassandra.apache.org/ > http://couchdb.apache.org/ > > On Tuesday 26 October 2010 14:11:12 Andrzej Bialecki wrote: >> On 2010-10-26 14:02, xiao yang wrote: >> > Hi, Andrzej >> > >> > Great, I'll definitely try Nutch 2.0! >> > As far as I know, Facebook is still using MySQL for storage. I believe >> > the its data scale will exceed 100K. Do you have any clues how they >> > solve the problem? >> >> By partitioning the database. There was a talk on the Facebook >> architecture at the Lucene Revolution conference, and I remember that >> there was a diagram that described their design - see >> lucenerevolution.com for more details. > > -- > Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex > http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 > 050-8536600 / 06-50258350 >
