This page lists a lot of Cassandra users with descriptions of the use case: http://planetcassandra.org/apache-cassandra-use-cases/
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:33 PM, jeremy p <athomewithagroove...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > So, I'm currently evaluating Cassandra + CQL as a solution for querying a > very large data set (think 60+ TB). We'd like to use it to directly power a > customer-facing product. My question is threefold : > > 1) What companies use Cassandra to serve a customer-facing product? I'm > not interested in evaluations, experiments, or POC. I'm also not > interested in offline BI or analytics. I'm specifically interested in > cases where Cassandra serves as the data store for a customer-facing > product. > > 2) Of the companies that use Cassandra to serve a customer-facing product, > which ones use it to query data sets of 60TB or more? > > 3) Of companies use Cassandra to query 60+ TB data sets and serve a > customer-facing product, how many employees are required to support their > Cassandra installation? In other words, if I were to start a team > tomorrow, and their purpose was to maintain a 60+ TB Cassandra installation > for a customer-facing product, how many people should I hire? > > 4) Of companies use Cassandra to query 60+ TB data sets and serve a > customer-facing product, what kind of measures do they take for disaster > recovery? > > If you can, please point me to articles, videos, and other materials. > Obviously, the larger the company, the better case it will make for > Cassandra. > > Thank you! > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>