Re:Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pagevie...
by j_baker on Monday August 26, 2013 @04:31PM
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For some reason, you seem to be reducing my argument to "Use the shiniest technology possible!". Please don't strawman me.
If MySQL works for your use-case, and it's the option you're the most familiar with, use it. You'd be doing yourself a disservice by not at least evaluating other options though.
And Cassandra is a key-value store with secondary indexes and lots of scaling capabilities (such as multi-datacenter deployments, multi-master replication deployment)[1], and some companies who aren't Google or Facebook do need these things. It sounds to me like IndexTank wasn't one of those companies.
I reiterate my point: choose what's best for your company, and don't settle at MySQL just because it's "good enough".
[1] I'd also add that it's particularly suited for large, insert-heavy datasets.
If MySQL works for your use-case, and it's the option you're the most familiar with, use it. You'd be doing yourself a disservice by not at least evaluating other options though.
And Cassandra is a key-value store with secondary indexes and lots of scaling capabilities (such as multi-datacenter deployments, multi-master replication deployment)[1], and some companies who aren't Google or Facebook do need these things. It sounds to me like IndexTank wasn't one of those companies.
I reiterate my point: choose what's best for your company, and don't settle at MySQL just because it's "good enough".
[1] I'd also add that it's particularly suited for large, insert-heavy datasets.