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Why Discord Moved from MongoDB to Apache Cassandra, Let us Discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The Limitation Is the Memory

If the index can fit, if the index can fully fit in the ram, there is no limitation any more. That's why this ssino is called a c po bound dera base architecture or set up. So you have like, i don't know, three tera by torto fram canyou that? I don't knowihin. But no, if you can go more anth, if you ging to do it, then then the index is everything in ram. This is what they hit. The index become so large, a hundred message, hundred million a day, right?So the index, imagine how big the index that contains channel idea n created at became so

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