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Re:Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail la... by chii on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:12AM (#16527602)
GC languages like Java is much easier to write, and can be made performant when required.
Re:Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail la... by nvarsj on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:52AM (#16528069)
Yes, this is the reason why Java is chosen. But I feel pretty strongly that databases are system engineering problems, and should be written using a proper systems language.

Something like Java makes implementation easier, but operation more difficult and costly.