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Apple runs Cassandra at scale today. It underpins most of iTunes Match and last time I checked all your iCloud data was sharded and stored in Cassandra. They run one of the latest clusters in the world (at least the last time I spoke with Datastax). Cassandra is a pretty easy database to run and scale and Datastax is just down the road from them to help.

My guess is that FoundationDB is replacing their Teradata installation. Better to buy the company and invest heavily in it then let it not met it's full potential as a small startup.




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