Case Studies

Case Studies from the Apache Cassandra Community:

• Adrian Cockcroft (Netflix) – Scaling Cassandra benchmark to over 1M writes/s on AWS


• View Use Cases, along with all other presentations from Cassandra SF 2011


• SoundCloud: Operations of Cassandra as a persisted, incrementally updated index, servicing SoundCloud Dashboards.


• Mikio Braun (TWimpact): Time oriented storage


• Daniel Doubleday(sMeet): Lessons learned in 1 year with Cassandra in a latency critical environment


• Cassandra in a realtime bidding infrastructure


• Digg: Going Steady with Cassandra


• How Mollum replaced SSDs and an external cache with Cassandra


• Rainbird: Realtime analytics at Twitter using Cassandra


• Real-world Ruby and Cassandra at OtherInbox


• Reddit’s switch from memcachedb to Cassandra. There are more comments by the Reddit engineer who did the work, ketralnis, in the reddit discussion thread.


• SimpleGEO’s use of cassandra, an interview with O’Reilly, a blog post with some infrastructure details, and slides from engineer Mike Malone


• 4 Months with Cassandra, a love story by Cloudkick


• Cassandra @ Twitter: an interview with Ryan King


• Lucandra, the lucene + cassandra engine powering sparse.ly


• Why FightMyMonster moved from HBase to Cassandra


• Looking to the Future with Cassandra: how Digg migrated their friends+diggs data set to Cassandra from MySQL


• Facebook engineering notes on implementing inbox search with Cassandra


• Example how to model your data into NoSQL with cassandra – a case study on a Facebook chat style application.