Facebook and Cassandra

Discussion of Facebook’s data management technologies, especially Project Cassandra. Related subjects include:

July 21, 2008

Project Cassandra — Facebook’s open sourced quasi-DBMS

Facebook has open-sourced Project Cassandra, an imitation of Google’s BigTable. Actual public information about Facebook’s Cassandra seems to reside in a few links that may be found on the Cassandra Project’s Google code page. All the discussion I’ve seen seems to be based solely on some slides from a SIGMOD presentation. In particular, Dare Obasanjo offers an excellent overview of Cassandra. To wit: Read more

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