A bit of advice on Cassandra vs MySQL

Question

I asked a question here a couple of days ago and got some really good answers, I was thinking of making a facebook-style website with profiles, bio, etc., and asked if I should use mysql, the answers were to use Cassandra, because it is much better. I just ask, this is what everyone would suggest, it’s just that I know mysql well, and it would be completely stupid to move on my part to use mysql over Cassandra (which I did not even hear about 2 days ago)

thanks

Answer 1

Go to MySQL. Cassandra will greatly complicate the work, it still lacks tools, manuals, etc. And that changes quickly, so you also have to change your code.

Take a look in this article - this explains why I think that it is not yet time for regular projects to go to Kassandra.

In case your sky-rockets application needs more scalability than MySQL, then you will have enough people to handle the transition to Cassandra. Just draw your data access level so you can switch later without changing the rest of the code.

Update: Pay attention to the date of reply. This will by definition become obsolete, so check to see if there are already good tools, tutorials, etc.