Twitter will migrate from MySQL to Cassandra DB

Submitted by carlos on 5 March, 2010 - 14:13
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Cassandra is an open source database distributed, is one of the noteworthy projects of the Apache Software Foundation and appears to be hitting hard. By being distributed enables high availability, fault tolerance and, above all, a highly scalable without loss of performance.

And were using companies that handle large amounts of data such as Rackspace, Digg, or Facebook, and the list is expanding.

The latest news, coming from a blog interview with Ryan King MyNoSQL is that Twitter is considering migrating their MySQL server clusters Cassandra DB.
 

This is a product presentation, which can be found in the same web Cassandra Project 

Data Presentations Cassandra Sigmod
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 It is also interesting blog post from Digg in explaining why they made the first migration to Cassandra.

 
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