On: Looking into the future with Cassandra

[wanderingmarker]

I read in several blog posts that Cassandra has its share of data-corrupting bugs. http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-runnin... mentioned that even Facebook does not use it as a system of record. Wonder how Digg deals with that.

[jbellis → wanderingmarker]

What that article says is if you do something analogous to backing up a live mysql database with dumb cp, Bad Things Happen.

Yes, we do plan to make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but this isn't a data-corrupting bug of the kind you meant.

[imajes → wanderingmarker]

Note that they're using cassandra for _computed_ data- the original components still exist elsewhere.