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By Thierry.Lefort
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Published: Mar 22 2010 / 09:43

Both Digg and Reddit have announced their move to Cassandra this month because MySQL does not scale well enough for them. Some consider that MySQL + memcache is no longer the de facto scalability solution.
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alphadogg.wordpress.com replied ago:

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Although I voted up, it unfortunate that the Bay Area devs, so vocal in their blogging, are actually causing a lot of misinformation about SQL, the Relational Model and databasing in general.

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