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ACID Transactions Apache Cassandra How It Works Performance Benchmarks

December 20, 2017

Building a Strongly Consistent Cassandra with Better Performance

In an earlier blog on database consistency, we had a detailed discussion on the risks and challenges applications face in dealing with eventually consistent NoSQL databases. We also dispelled the myth that eventually consistent DBs perform better than strongly consistent DBs. In this blog, we will look more closely into how YugaByte DB provides strong consistency while outperforming an eventually consistent DB like Apache Cassandra.

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ACID Transactions Distributed SQL Google Spanner

August 29, 2017

by Karthik Ranganathan

Facebook’s User DB — Is it SQL or NoSQL?

Updated March 2019.

Ever wondered which database Facebook (FB) uses to store the profiles of its 2.3B+ users? Is it SQL or NoSQL? How has FB database architecture evolved over the last 15+ years? As an engineer in FB database infrastructure team from 2007 to 2013, I had a front row seat in witnessing this evolution.

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Cloud Providers Databases

August 18, 2017

by Karthik Ranganathan

NoSQL vs SQL in 2017

Came across the image below here and this made me smile. Not because of the implied complexity of choosing a database, but the reality with which this flow chart captures the state of the database world today in 2017. Of course, running whatever database you end up choosing in production is a whole another order of complexity.

I have been working on distributed systems for the last 10+ years.

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