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kkovacs on Dec 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak c...

Good point, and it's not there since I only wanted to speak from experience; especially with rumors of Cassandra scaling problems at Reddit and Digg.

But sure thing, "infinite" scaling is probably best done with the Dynamo-like stuff like Cassandra and/or RIAK.

DennisP on Dec 31, 2010 [–]

Reddit runs Cassandra with just a few nodes. Cassandra scales up well, but doesn't scale down as well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/c2spc/reddits...

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