Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL

donadony writes "After twitter, now it's Digg who's decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an open source project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licensed under the Apache License. The reason for this move, as explained by Digg, is the increasing difficulty of building a high-performance, write-intensive application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F13%2F0126224%2FDigg-Says-Yes-To-NoSQL-Cassandra-DB-Bye-To-MySQL" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Digg+Says+Yes+To+NoSQL+Cassandra+DB%2C +Bye+To+MySQL%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaCmF4E" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/03/13/0126224/Digg-Says-Yes-To-NoSQL-Cassandra-DB-Bye-To-MySQL?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0BkAmAHa14j_T6o3VceJc1H2LYQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0BkAmAHa14j_T6o3VceJc1H2LYQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0BkAmAHa14j_T6o3VceJc1H2LYQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0BkAmAHa14j_T6o3VceJc1H2LYQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/8AZr4_t0KXQ" height="1" width="1"/

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