What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
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We've made a big bet on Cassandra because it can scale linearly, which has let us nearly quadruple our customer base every year without an issue.
Monzo on betting on Cassandra for almost all persistent data
monzo.com ↗·2019-12-17Wrong?
We already had lots of experience and expertise with Postgres and Apache Cassandra , so these would remain our data stores.
DoorDash keeping Cassandra as a data store in the new stack
doordash.engineering ↗·2021-05-04Wrong?
The first cloud-native version of the viewing history storage architecture used Cassandra for the following reasons
Why Netflix stored member viewing history in Cassandra
netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-01-23Wrong?
or, in some specialized cases, NoSQL databases like Cassandra.
Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL
uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?
The Cassandra backend wasn't scaling well We designed the data model of the Cassandra backend to avoid indexes, as these are a feature of Cassandra that we generally avoid for performance reasons.
Monzo on Cassandra as a Vault storage backend not scaling
monzo.com ↗·2019-12-17Wrong?
To our chagrin, it was a high-toil system — our on-call team was frequently paged for issues with the database, latency was unpredictable, and we were having to cut down on maintenance operations that became too expensive to run.
Discord's move of its message storage off Cassandra
discord.com ↗·2023-03-06Wrong?
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