#005 - Scaling Databases Every Which Way with Glauber Costa
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The Importance of Java in Distributed Databases
Silla uses Apache Cassandra, which is a very similar type of no SQL database. In fact, my understanding is that you use the same driver's exactly. The first thing that stuck out to me when I was doing some research on this was that Apache Cassandra is written in Java. Using a language like C++ at the time, allow us to do a lot of optimizations by being closer to the matter.
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