At reddit, we used Cassandra, and it was a huge pain to manage. At Netflix we used it, and had a whole team of engineers that built tools just to manage Cassandra.
If this service had existed then, it would have made life so much easier!
If this service had existed then, it would have made life so much easier!
As they aren't, even new projects will often not use DynamoDB to avoid vendor lock-in
Honestly having a SaaS and the hosting instances of your competing offerings is probably a good strategy.
It's not really an admission that one is "better" than the other, it's just an admission that people like managed drop-in replacements for tools that they're already using.
As a customer, it's feels way better to have both options like this in AWS, and I'm sure DDB and managed Cassandra will always have pros and cons in standalone functionality and ecosystem integration.
Do you mean that amazon is tending towards strong or externalizable consistency now?
I’ve always noticed AWS products tend towards eventual consistency, and Google Cloud offerings are almost all strongly consistent.
For example S3 is eventually consistent for read after write (if it’s not the first write). Google cloud storage is strongly consistent for read after all writes.
There's definitely still a DHT sitting under there.