Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL

March 12, 2010 · Print This Article

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 that move, as explained by Digg, is the

increasing difficulty of building a high-performance, write-intensive application on a documents set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. that 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.”