[Vishnevskiy]

The problems that Jepsen found were centered around the "transactions" feature that Cassandra added. We don't use these and don't need them since we don't need 100% consistency and prefer availability (for example we read at quorum to trigger read repair, but downgrade to single node reads if we need to).

Also ScyllaDB is a new product and it would be crazy to start off with it. We plan to run a long-term double write experiment before we are comfortable with using it as a primary data store.

[smharris65]

The Jepsen tests were not completely centered around transactions. It also had to do with data loss when replicas go down and pure "last-write-wins" approach. For those wanting more info around this the original post is here:

https://aphyr.com/posts/294-jepsen-cassandra

[Vishnevskiy]

Last-write-wins is a semantic we are okay with for this data, and dealing with one of our conflicts is outlined the article.

[smharris65]

I enjoyed your article and I do appreciate your transparency!