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Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL

Posted by timothy on from the can-you-trust-a-db-by-that-name? dept.

donadony writes "After twitter, now it's Digg who's decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Cassandra, an open source project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licensed under the Apache License. The reason for this move, as explained by Digg, is the increasing difficulty of building a high-performance, write-intensive application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead."

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  1. Facebook, Twitter and now Digg by clarkkent09 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Cassandra developers are celebrating the fact that their database is now used to store the largest amount of worthless information in history.

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  2. New acronym in order? by mgkimsal2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the Digg blog - http://about.digg.com/node/564

    "And if that doesn't sound like a big enough challenge, we're replacing most of our infrastructure components and moving away from LAMP."

    Cassandra Linux Apache PHP?

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  3. Re:Reddit by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was not aware metallurgy was popular amongst the youth.