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by Kototama 1059 days ago
Cassandra is more close to AP whereas MySQL with clustering is more like CP. So they serve different purpose. See this nice discussion on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36404765/why-isnt-rdbms-...

> Also, whether you need a highly available database for a company like yelp is an implementation detail.

You surely know better than them what they need, that's impressive.