DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at Oracle

Re:DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at... by tdfx on Thursday September 04, 2014 @03:58PM (#8270286)

If you read the way tutorials pitch CQL, you will assume it's replacing SQL. But once you understand how it works, no it's not replacing SQL.

Edit: We actually use Cassandra and have found it to be an outstanding solution for our use case. But I feel like CQL's superficial similarity to SQL leads many to confusion until you dig into how it works.

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Re:DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at... by nemo44x on Thursday September 04, 2014 @05:00PM (#8270613)

The fact there is an UPDATE statement that is actually an INSERT is clever, but possibly misleading to many users. The design is for insert only so you hate to see syntax that is actually a different semantic.

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Re:DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at... by ddorian43 on Thursday September 04, 2014 @04:04PM (#8270328)

It's because i've read them, and I know they suck(feature-wise). It's like mongodb all over again (replace your rdbms).

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Re:DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at... by skyebook on Thursday September 04, 2014 @05:04PM (#8270633)

I honestly don't recall seeing much, if any, evangelism to the extremes of "hey you don't need a relational database anymore" as it relates to Cassandra. Talks I've seen have generally focused on using it as a tool to fit a specific niche/do something that the existing RDBMS wasn't optimal for.

Disclosure: C* User

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Re:DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at... by ddorian43 on Thursday September 04, 2014 @05:17PM (#8270704)

About the talks, yeah. There is no one talking about how we replaced our rdbms (except where they were using the rdbms as kv or something similar like reddit), because it isn't possible.

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