Does Apple use Cassandra?

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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).

Which company uses Cassandra?

One open source application, Apache Cassandra, enables organisations to process large volumes of fast moving data in a reliable and scalable way. That's why companies like Facebook, Instagram and Netflix use Apache Cassandra for mission-critical features.

Does Netflix still use Cassandra?

Cassandra, with its distributed architecture, was a natural choice, and by 2013, most of Netflix's data was housed there, and Netflix still uses Cassandra today.

What databases does Apple use?

At least measured by jobs, Cassandra is Apple's dominant NoSQL database, with double the listings of any other.

Is Cassandra widely used?

Cassandra is the most popular wide column store database system on the market.

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