Databases & Storage
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
Discord's message storage architecture evolved to handle immense scale, moving from MongoDB to Cassandra and ultimately to ScyllaDB to optimize for low latency and high throughput. This transition highlights the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and performance in distributed database systems.
DatabaseScalingLatencyPerformanceCAP TheoremNoSQLData ModelingEventual ConsistencyCassandraScyllaDB
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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - System Design Diagram
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