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Looking at Cassandra (DB) and Hiphop (Compiling PHP to Native C)

  • December 22, 2010
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I was all over the internet one day and ran into a project called Cassandra. Which was opensourced by Facebook and is being developed by Apache committers as well as other major companies.

http://cassandra.apache.org/

I also dug up another Facebook related project called Hiphop, which compiles PHP into native C to boost performance. Also used by Facebook.

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/


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