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Re:Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksD... by pbowyer on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:45PM (#16194711)
Thanks for the comment and look forward to the dedicated blog post :)

Was Riak KV ever considered?

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Re:Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksD... by JelteF on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:16PM (#16194888)
Not as far as I know. We did benchmark a lot of embedded storages before deciding on Rocksdb though.
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Re:Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksD... by ddorian43 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:53PM (#16194759)
Wasn't riak, like, less efficient than cassandra ?
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Re:Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksD... by StreamBright on Saturday January 20, 2018 @04:16PM (#16195466)
What do you mean? I think Riak is much simpler and after tuning it beats Cassandra on the same HW same use case in my anecdotal experience.
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