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by SebJansen 1174 days ago
Cassandra is probably in the realm 'boring and scalable'
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Definitely not. I'd much rather scale Postgres manually through layers of sharding and proxies than handle Cassandra.

There is ScyllaDB for a much better reimplementation of Cassandra/Dynamo, but wide-column databases are still best for niche scenarios, especially as RDBMS are rapidly evolving into natively distributed architectures.