How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
submitted 3 years ago by zyxzevn from (blog.discord.com)
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Apparently they switched to Scylla in 2020. Scylla sounds pretty legit. https://www.scylladb.com/press-release/discord-chooses-scylla-core-storage-layer/
[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
This is a typical modern approach. I don't know anything about Cassandra but these big distributed databases are complicated and generally unnecessary. Discord is perfectly suited for being a distributed app where each machine handles a few servers locally. This is much simpler, but of course modern scum never use the simple solution.
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