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POIs Cassandra really ready & mature enough for production environments for big projects?
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copied!<p>NoSQL databases & particularly Cassandra have created a lot of buzz with their high scalability promises at cheaper costs. </p> <p>There is a lot of buzz around regarding Cassandr's adoption by social networking majors like facebook, twitter, digg. But the fact really is, fb is no longer really taking Cassandra into consideration in the recent projects, and facebook never completely relied on cassandra ditching mysql even though it is still struggling hard with mySQL where Cassandra could have been a good fit for their models. <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-specifically-caused-Twitter-to-abandon-the-Cassandra-migration?q=why+twitter+not+using+cassandra&redirected_qid=62190" rel="nofollow"> </p> <p>Even twitter stepped back from its plans to move to Cassandra cluster</a></p> <p>Also Digg hasn't been very successful with their Cassandra implementation(but not clear who to be blamed for this).</p> <p>With this no big players are left around who are proud playing with Cassandra..!!</p> <p><strong>It is still in the <em>alpha stage</em> and with <em>small community</em> so should Cassandra be considered for production environments for big projects?? For a social networking site, which database solution amongst MySQL & Cassandra would be:</strong></p> <ol> <li>easier to build on, maintain and administer </li> <li>offers good performance</li> <li>cheaper solution</li> <li>future proof (in terms of <strong>scalability, reliability</strong>, etc)</li> <li>less human administration required.</li> </ol> <p><strong>Amongst all above I majorly doubt its reliability.... Am I risking my data with Cassandra!!???</strong></p> <p>any other advice you can give ?</p>

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