[ale] OT - Have you an opinion of Apache Cassandra DB

[James Sumners]

>From [1]: "Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent,
distributed, structured key-value store." In other words, Cassandra is
NOT a database in the sense that MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, et al. are
databases. You will not find ANSI standard SQL support in Cassandra.
This thing has a very specific uses, and those uses are not "reliable"
(see "eventually consistent").

In short, don't try to shoehorn Drupal into using it. Drupal is
designed to work with actual relational databases; specifically MySQL.

[1] -- http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 13:25, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... or is it too new to have been interesting.
> I am considering trying to bolt Drupal to it instead of one of the DBs they
> claim to support.
>
> Wolf

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