Digg: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:40

Digg is committed to the use & development of open source software & we're keen to avoid the cost of proprietary large-scale storage solutions.

We were inspired by Google & Amazon's broad use of their non-relational BigTable and Dynamo systems.

We evaluated all the usual open source NoSQL suspects. After considerable debate, we decided to go with

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