Is it possible to use cassandra with heroku?
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A:
No and yes.
It depends on whether you mean use a Heroku-hosted Cassandra instance or not. If that's what you mean then the answer is no (for now at least). They support PostrgeSQL within their stack and MySQL through Amazon RDS. MongoDB support is in beta (partnering with MongoHQ) and CouchDB is roadmapped for later this year (in conjunction with Cloudant).
But of course there's no technical reason to stop you from deploying Cassandra elsewhere (say on EC2) to work with your Heroku app. So in this context the answer is yes.
bjg
2010-07-20 19:00:55