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by polskibus 3033 days ago
Does FB still use Cassandra? I thought they abandoned them ages ago and then databricks picked it up?
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ADefenestrator 3021 days ago
FB abandoned Cassandra (which was really only used for message inbox indexing) when they redid how messages work years ago, but the re-adopted a large C* infra when they bought Instagram.
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jjirsa 3033 days ago
The article is literally written by Instagram, which is FB.
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sciurus 3033 days ago
Well, it's a separate product that Facebook acquired. True or not, it's a common perception that Facebook abandoned Cassandra.

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/datastax/

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wenc 3033 days ago
> then databricks picked it up

I think it's DataStax. Databricks is the company behind Spark.

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