After Twitter, it is Reddit’s turn to adopt Cassandra – the Open Source distributed database management system. Reddit has migrated its persistent cache to Cassandra.
The leading social news / link sharing website, Reddit.com, announced this in a blog post. Reddit says about this migration:
As of this morning we’re now running with our persistent cache backed by Cassandra.
In case you are wondering why we chose Cassandra: it is way faster, more scalable, and has a rich and active development community full of extremely smart and helpful people. [ … ]
Many other big sites like Digg, Facebook and Twitter have already adopted Cassandra because of its performance and extensibility.
Also Read: Twitter To Replace MySQL by Cassandra
Read More Articles:
