Facebooks Big Table Implementation

I found out that facebook use whats called a 开发者_如何学运维big table. Is there a way that I can use this "Big table" database in an application that I am using?

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Yes you can. The project is called Cassandra. Facebook just opensourced it. You can download it from here. But be very afraid, because the project is still under highly active development.

If you are going to use it from other language like C#, you also need thrift to talk to cassandra.

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All the existing NO SqL databases are following the principle of Big Table, invented by Google.

Not only Facebook, Amazon, IBM, mongo, and some other vendors all provides big table based database systems.