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Arin Sarkissian
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Arin Sarkissian's personal blog at arin.me covers culture and programming. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as sources in HN threads on NoSQL versus relational databases and Cassandra's data model, including a post on supercolumns. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is my blog. I put stuff here and 5 or 6 random people read it. Horror movies, basketball, punk rock - hell, I may write something about tech again some day. Enjoy
Most-linked posts?
- WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Here's the issue with this entire topic: 1. It's not just which can do reads/writes better--it's not apples to apples, it's apples to oranges. You're right. 2. If you look the type of reads Cassandra can do and the type of reads MySQL can do. MySQL blows Casandra out of the water in terms of flexibility. (at a cost obviously) MySQL simply has the best flexibility. Cassandra has a ways to go. 3. In Cassandra you esse…
Comment linking /code/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model
on “NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin”Submitted Cassandra Explained: An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model as a story · 80 points
HN discussionCassandra has the features you are looking for, including adding nodes as needed, and is starting to get a bunch of success stories outside of its original authors (facebook). Digg, for instance, has 9TB across 12 machines. They wrote some articles about it at http://arin.me/code/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-mode... and http://blog.digg.com/?p=966 . (I work for rackspace and we have an internal app going live…
Comment linking /code/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model
on “MongoDB: A Light in the Darkness”Submitted WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model as a story · 53 points
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