Saturday, February 5, 2011

Why and How Netflix Adopted NoSQL Databases

Netflix uses three NoSQL tools: SimpleDB, HBase and Cassandra. "The reason why we use multiple NoSQL solutions is because each one is best suited for a specific set of use cases," Izrailevsky writes. He writes that the learning curve has been steep and re-architecting the company's systems has been difficult but "the scalability, availability and performance advantages of the NoSQL persistence model are evident and are paying for themselves already, and will be central to our long-term cloud strategy."

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