Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL

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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Re:Allergic reaction to MySQL

[__aasqbs9791]

I think it comes down to the sad fact that most people aren't good at their jobs. They tend to rise to one level above where they are actually competent, and stay there. And from my experience, they aren't usually very happy in whatever that position is, which (and IMHO) might be the reason that people in modern societies are often less happy (overall) than people in less advanced societies. Not many people enjoy that.

Re:Facebook, Twitter and now Digg

[seanadams.com]

You're not the brightest crayon in the box are you? Nobody knows who the winners will be until years down the road. There are no billions of dollars in play on day one.

Re:Reddit's reliability has been shitty lately.

[uncqual]

Get a life. You obviously understood my comment (else you wouldn't have been able to post your response). The goal of writing is COMMUNICATION -- I obviously succeeded. Your, sir or madam, appear to be a pedantic idiot who has nothing better to do than syntax check comments. What do you think of Hemingway or e. e. cummings (or, have you ever even heard of them?)?

Oh, and if you can't express yourself without using about 6% profanity, you might want to take a class in English or English Literature.

(Oh, I'm around 4x a "teenager" in age and have hired a lot of 22 year olds who have much greater intellects than you seem to have. Life Suggestion: Learn something about technology and THEN be a pedantic idiot if you still, in your pathetic world, need to validate yourself by being a pedantic idiot. Please post when you feel you can comfortably retire long before "traditional retirement age" - let us know how that works out after you have graduated from DeVry.)