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9th September 2009 - Link Blog

Looking to the future with Cassandra. Digg are now using Cassandra for their “green badge” (one of your friends have dugg this story) feature—the resulting denormalised dataset weighs in at 3 TB and 76 billion columns.

Posted 9th September 2009 at 9:26 pm

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