Re: Cassandra use cases: as a datagrid ? as a distributed cache ?

2010-04-28 Thread Lisen Mu
Facebook did a lot of work to keep their huge memcache cluster consistent and fault-tolerant. I think a cache infrastructure like Cassandra would make that a lot easier. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Lisen Mu wrote: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments

Re: Cassandra use cases: as a datagrid ? as a distributed cache ?

2010-04-28 Thread Lisen Mu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bcqhi/reddits_now_running_on_cassandra/ It seems to me that they are still using Cassandra in persistant storage layer as a replacement of memcachedb, not in cache layer. I'm new here with Cassandra actually, but now I'm also curious about the possibil