Overheard in the tech blogosphere » Digg http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard talking about Digg and Cassandra http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-talking-about-digg-and-cassandra/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-talking-about-digg-and-cassandra/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 12:03:26 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/?p=4036 “Built on mostly open source software and commodity hardware, Digg dropped its open source MySQL database in favor of Cassandra, a non-relational, “NoSQL” database that was developed by Facebook and handed over to the Apache Software Foundation.” — Rob Barry

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Digg, a social news site that allows members to raise the visibility of stories they like best and bury stories they don’t like. Digg was launched back in 2004.

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