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- 192.com uses Cassandra to cache, analyze and index portions of the people-related Web
- Cassandra is also used as the database in a new Web People Search Engine
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- Adform uses Cassandra to help power their digital advertising platform
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- Adobe uses Cassandra in Adobe® AudienceManager, a Digital Marketing Suite (DMS) product that consolidates, activates, and optimizes digitally addressable data from all sources
- View Cassandra at Adobe presentation at Cassandra NYC 2011 (HD Video)
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- Aeris Communications uses Cassandra for their scalable M2M (Machine to Machine) Application Platform
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: M2M with Cassandra (Slides and Video)
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- Agentis Energy uses Cassandra to help with their energy management tools
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- aiMatch uses Cassandra as a backend for visitor storage
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- Apigee Usergrid is a comprehensive platform stack for mobile and rich client applications running on top of Cassandra
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Cassandra at Apigee Usergrid: Powering Mobile (Slides and Video)
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- Apixio uses Cassandra for serving seach queries on medical records
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- Applifier built a facebook style messenger which uses Cassandra as storage backend (View Blog Post)
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- AppScale uses Cassandra as a backend for Google App Engine applications.
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- Appssavvy uses Cassandra extensively in their activity based advertising platform, adtivity, to drive their activity ad delivery engine, event and engagement tracking, advanced reporting and analytics, and future Big Data needs including search.
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- Apptegic relies on Cassandra to help subscription businesses understand their customer engagement and respond to it
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- Arkivum uses Cassandra across multiple datacenters, clouds and customer sites to help build scalability and resilience into its assured archive service
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- Azul certifies Cassandra on the Zing JVM to ensure support for large heaps, high throughput and low-latency
- Azul also uses Cassandra for internal BI for sales and marketing analytics
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- Backupify uses Cassandra for meta data storage around files and objects
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- Cake uses Cassandra for advanced cloud-based fraud detection including credit card and other financial transactions
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- CallFire has created an API and Client for creating voice applications with the help of Cassandra
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- Citypath uses Cassandra to hold information about attractions, reviews, users, etc. for their city attraction recommendation system
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- View a video with Dave Connors, Constant Contact’s VP of Operations, talking about their use case here: Part 1 and Part 2
- Constant Contact’s Social Media feature uses Cassandra and helped them deploy the app in 3 months for $250k, compared to 9 months for $2.5 million if they used a traditional RDBMS.
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- View Jeremy Hanna from Dachis Group’s presentation: Using Pig alongside Cassandra from Cassandra SF (Slides and HD Video)
- The Dachis Group built and maintain a storage and analytics engine with Cassandra and Hadoop
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- Datadog uses Cassandra to store billions of Web and IT metrics every day.
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- Datafiniti is building a web search engine for structured data using Solandra
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- Datagraph uses Cassandra to store input RDF datasets and output files
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- Demandforce uses Cassandra for real-time data analytics
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- Despegar uses Cassandra to storage user sessions for its hotel booking site, and also as a persistent cache of flight itineraries
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- View the Digital Reasoning Case Study
- Synthesys application with potential scale to over a 400-node Cassandra database was rolled out in late 2010.
- Incoming data is preprocessed by Hadoop and then added to the Cassandra repository on a continuous basis.
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- Digital River is running Cassandra on their Global E-Commerce products
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- Easou is using Cassandra in their mobile search engine product
- Easou uses Cassandra to store over 300 million images (300 TB of data) in Cassandra
- Easou also uses Cassandra to handle 400 million inserts per day for user tracking information
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- eBay has Cassandra supporting multiple applications (Social Signals, Hunch, and many time series use cases) with clusters spanning several data centers
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Buy it Now! Cassandra at eBay (Slides and Video)
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- Egnyte is using Cassandra with multiple data centers to help run their Cloud File Server solution
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- embed.ly uses Cassandra for their API and Pro services
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- Enkata uses Cassandra to serve desktop video recordings and store billions of desktop activity data points to support its Desktop Analytics, Performance and Contact Resolution products
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- The Ericsson Labs OAuth Authorization service is using Cassandra as their data backend
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- FanBridge’s web-based Fan Relationship Management (FRM) platform uses Cassandra as a back-end data-store
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- FINN.no uses Cassandra to run Norway’s largest marketplace
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- View Presentation Slides: Cassandra @Formspring
- Formspring uses Cassandra to count responses, as well as store Social Graph data (followers, following, blockers, blocking) for 26 Million accounts with 10 million responses a day
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- Friend Facts’ Facebook app that ask questions based on friends’ profiles is running on Cassandra
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- Gemini’s Cloudian® uses Cassandra as a component in its HyperStore™ S3-compatible object storage system
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Using Cassandra in an S3 Cloud Storage System (Slides and Video)
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- GoingOn uses Cassandra to scale out Communications with 25+ universities using a stream based communication model.
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- GoTime uses Cassandra as their primary data store for their Happy Hours website and mobile application
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- Gridpoint uses Cassandra with their internal API’s for their offerings of Energy Management products
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- Healthline uses Cassandra as part of their crawling and indexing infrastructure
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- Hobsons uses Cassandra to process log data as part of their educational application offerings
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Building a Cassandra Based Application from Scratch (Slides and Video)
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- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is using Cassandra database to track usage, system errors
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- HP stores playlists, play counts, favorites, and other content relating to online music streaming from computers and smartphones using Cassandra
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- HubSpot Marketing uses Cassandra to help with their all-in-one marketing software platform
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- Impetus Big Data services include consulting, architecture, development, test and support around technologies like the complete Hadoop ecosystem, NoSQL, Real Time Data, Visualization, DBs including Cassandra, Mongo DB, Membase and a range of Commercial MPP products and ETL, BI/Analytics tools.
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- Inkling uses Cassandra to store usage patterns and activity streams for their interactive textbooks.
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- iovation uses Cassandra in their fraud prevention service to identify users that abuse systems and for customers to retrieve that information
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- Jetpac uses Cassandra to index tens of millions of photos a day
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- Jumptap uses Cassandra to handle clickstream, converstion, demographic, and usage data
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- justSignal uses Cassandra to store raw data objects and edges
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- Librato is using Cassandra for their infrastructure SaaS offering
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- LiveOffice is using Lucandra/Solandra for text indexing in Cassandra
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- LivePerson uses Cassandra with the LiveEngage Platform for online activity data capture, behavioral analysis, and audience segmentation
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- Mate1 is using Cassandra for their online dating website
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- MedProcure uses Cassandra to help provide software solutions for ordering and tacking medical supplies
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- MetaBroadcast uses Cassandra for storing and accessing metadata in the 4.0 version of Atlas, the global video & audio index.
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- Morningstar uses Cassandra as a big data security aggregator from multiple sources using Morningstar global security identifier
- View Morningstar’s Cassandra presentation here
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- With ~20 million users, Movile.com leverages Cassandra for their subscription management services
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- Napshare uses Cassandra as the primary data store for their social bookmarking service
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- NAVTEQ uses Cassandra for storing user profiles, demographic information
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- Nearbuy provides analytics to brick and mortar stores using Cassandra
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- Next Big Sound uses Cassandra to keep track of the listening, discovery, and purchase decisions of music listeners
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- Nextag is using Cassandra for their traffic acquisition platform
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- NextSlide.com uses Cassandra to help with analytics for their presentation sharing application
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- ngmoco stores user information (username, password, email) and gaming achievements (high scores, trophies) in Cassandra
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- Nicira Networks has created software that virtualizes the network and enables elastic, scale-out data centers with the help of Cassandra
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- nScaled uses Cassandra to as a backbone for Cloud Archived File System hosted in their worldwide data centers.
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- nToklo is a scalable platform, running on Cassandra and Hadoop, that provides data analytics, personalised recommendations and social integration features for our online retail and digital media service partners
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- Odnoklassniki uses Cassandra as their primary storage for of all Like! buttons, picture voting marks, and other critical services which are both write and read intensive systems
- Odnoklassniki utilizes multi-data center deployments of cassandra nodes in clusters for high availability on data center failures
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- Cassandra is in use at Onesite to help run their website platform services
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- Onespot is running Cassandra to help with their link recommendation services
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- OpenAdExchange uses Cassandra for search-based advertising
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- Openfeint uses Cassandra as a real-time storage for gaming information such as trophies and achievements
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- View the Openwave Case Study
- Cassandra acts as a distributed database and serves as a distributed storage mechanism for Openwave’s next generation messaging platform.
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Cassandra at Telco Scale (Slides and Video)
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- OpenX is running over 130 nodes on Cassandra for their OpenX Enterprise product to store and replicate advertisements and targeting data for ad delivery
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- Page2RSS is a service that uses Cassandra to helps monitor web sites that do not publish feeds
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- Palantir uses Cassandra in their platforms for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing the world’s information.
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- PBS Kids is using Cassandra for educational purposes on PBSKIDS.org
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- PCPhase uses Cassandra to run a large mobile web site.
- PCPhase is one of the first to use Cassandra in production in Japan.
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- Peoplebrowsr uses Cassandra to help store Social Media Data
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- Perfect World Entertainment uses Cassandra to store players’ rolling action and achievement data with user analysis applications running on top of it
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- Pitney Bowes is developing a Cloud-based application using Cassandra
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- Platform46 built an on-premise enterprise appliance which provides twitter-like, “open-follower”, short messaging services for internal corporate networks using Cassandra
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- Plaxo uses Cassandra to store contact information
- “To give you a sense of the scale of our efforts, we’ve reviewed 3 billion contacts in Plaxo’s Cassandra database, compared them with publicly available data sources, and identified approximately 600 million unique people with contact info”
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- Polyvore is a web-based application for mixing and matching products from any online store that uses Cassandra as its back-end data store
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- Press+ uses Cassandra to help run their e-commerce solutions
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- Proofpoint is using Cassandra to store historical archive data
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- Quantifind uses Cassandra to help store data analytics
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- Quova is using Cassandra in the production of their geolocation data
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- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Cassandra in Rackspace Cloud Monitoring (Slides and Video)
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- RAZORlabs uses Cassandra through a custom made API based on Hector and Java
- At RAZORlabs, Cassandra is used to maintain structures of user data, profiles, photos and company information
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- ReachLocals internal API uses Thrift to communicate with Cassandra Data Store for their local advertising platform
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- Real Networks used Cassandra to improve availability and performance while reducing costs to provide digital media
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- Referentia uses Cassandra in their network management product to capture time-series data
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- Reltio uses Cassandra at the primary datastore for their Big Data Applications
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Cassandra – A Foundation for Real-time Big Data Applications at Reltio (Slides and Video)
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- Retickr pulls in news from the Internet and presents it to end users in a unified stream using Cassandra
- Retickr’s Cassandra cluster holds stories (RSS/Facebook/Twitter), icons and avatars associated with those stories, and user information (usernames, passwords, preferences)
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- Rhapsody uses Cassandra to handle very large scale data, such as users profile and play data
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- SEOmoz uses Cassandra to store metadata and materialized views for their Crawl Service, which currently holds data for over 1 million customer crawls, with average API response times under 100 milliseconds
- View SEOmoz’s blog post on how they use Cassandra in production
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- SEVEN Networks uses Cassandra in their consumer oriented mobile applications that contain rich internet media
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- Shazam uses Cassandra cluster to power their recommendations system
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- SimpleReach uses Cassandra ingest over 100m events per day and over 500m pageviews per month in their social intelligence tool for content creators
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: 1, 2, 3, 4, Add Another Data Store (Slides and Video)
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Lightning Talk: Node.js and Cassandra (Helenus) (Slides and Video)
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- Skillpages uses Cassandra 0.7 to help run their skill-based social network
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- Software Projects uses 20 Cassandra nodes across 3 datacenters to power the eCommerce platform for 3,000 businesses
- “We use Cassandra to store real-time purchase data and provide various stats for our customers”
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- Sonico uses Cassandra to help power South America’s largest social network
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- SourceNinja uses Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise to help monitor and track all open source software versions across all platforms
- View the SourceNinja case study
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Cassandra Plus Solr (Slides and Video)
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- Spidertracks uses Cassandra as part of their safety system to provide the reliability they require for data storage
- Being able to complete upgrades and modifications without any system down time is essential to Spidertracks and Cassandra makes this easy for them
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- Spredfast is using large EC2 Cassandra instances to help run their Social CRM
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- Squidoo is using Cassandra for a gaming-overlay to award points for milestones, leveling up, awarding trophies, unlocking new features, etc, and to also log user interactions
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- Tapulous uses Cassandra to support their Mobile Social Apps
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- Teads uses Cassandra to connect advertisers and publishers with its video marketplace to view the analytics of their activity in real-time
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- Tellybug uses Cassandra in the Tellybug platform which powers apps for tops shows like The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent
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- Tendril uses Cassandra to support random access to huge volumes of data from the smart grid
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- The Find is using Cassandra for user session data for 15 million+ sessions a month for over 400 million products
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- Trap!t is using Cassandra for user learning databases and back-end analytics
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- Triple Point Technology uses Cassandra as part of their Commodity Trading platform
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Moving at the Speed of Markets (Slides and Video)
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- V2i uses Cassandra to store time-series data for remote structure health monitoring
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- Viglink is using Cassandra to help process a few million clicks a day and a few billion pageviews a month
- Cassandra Summit 2012 Presentation: Technical Deep Dive: Secondary Indexes (Slides and Video)
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- Vtex is using Cassandra to collect behavior data from its users in order to provide tools for engagement in its e-commerce platform
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- “We’re a small team fueled by Guru and espresso, with a love/hate relationship with Cassandra.”
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- WeR uses Cassandra as the backend for their social games
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- Where’s local search and recommendation service uses Cassandra
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- Wildfire’s Social Marketing Suite is running on Cassandra
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- Workware Systems uses Apache Cassanda in their Adaptive Case Management application, WorkwareOne™.
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- Wupa uses Cassandra to power a multi-website/customer content management system
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- At Xobni, Cassandra is used as the Data Storage Layer for Xobni Cloud, cloud-based service for storing contact, e-mail, and personal interaction data
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- Yakaz uses Cassandra to store millions of images as well as its social data.
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- Ycharts is building a large scale, data heavy financial market research application that has real time components and lots of background processing with the help of Cassandra
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- ZipZapPlay uses Cassandra to run their Facebook game applications
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