FB Inbox Search still runs on Cassandra and will continue to do so. I should know since I maintain it :).
Cheers Avinash On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM, David Strauss <da...@fourkitchens.com>wrote: > On 2010-07-05 15:40, Eric Evans wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:14 +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote: > >> This person's understanding is that Facebook 'no longer contributes to > >> nor uses Cassandra.': > >> > >> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/17/beyond-cassandra/ > > > > Last I heard, Facebook was still using Cassandra for what they had > > always used it for, Inbox Search. Last I heard, there were no plans in > > place to change that. > > I had the opportunity to talk with some Facebook infrastructure > engineers in San Francisco over the past few weeks. They are no longer > using Cassandra, even for inbox search. > > Inbox search was intended to be an initial push for using Cassandra more > broadly, not the primary target of the Cassandra design. Unfortunately, > Facebook's engineers later decided that Cassandra wasn't the right > answer to the right question for Facebook's purposes. > > That decision isn't an indictment of Cassandra's capability; it's > confirmation that Cassandra isn't everything to everyone. But we already > knew that. :-) > > -- > David Strauss > | da...@fourkitchens.com > | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] > Four Kitchens > | http://fourkitchens.com > | +1 512 454 6659 [office] > | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] > >
