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Cassandra
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HBase vs Cassandra: Why We Moved
A firsthand account of migrating from HBase to Cassandra, written in 2010 but widely read through 2012. The core finding: Cassandra was operationally simpler and more resilient to node failures, while HBase required careful HDFS management and had more complex failure modes.
Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS
Netflix's 2012 benchmark of SSD-backed Cassandra on AWS EC2 — showing 3-4x latency improvements over spinning disk for their use case. An early real-world data point on SSD economics in cloud distributed databases.