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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Is Silla DB a Better Architecture?

The garbage collection poses that's the only problem left with Cassandra as far as we know. Silla DB has Certain Compaction strategies that might not be available in in Cassandra, but how much really is the difference? That's what makes me think now As the I'll leave you the final thought right that's one thing that they didn't try And then the day this is a better architecture cleaner Of course if you can get rid of the garbage collection and it was causing you trouble get rid of it by all means. But it's interesting what they did to achieve this right We learned a lot from this blogI absolutely enjoy Enjoyed reading it. The shadow of the author again and everybody in

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