Facebook Timeline Database? [closed] - mysql

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I was reading an article about facebook timeline https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150468255628920
I always thought this kind of core produces would prefer Cassandra. However it is using MySQL/InnoDB.
Could anyone briefly explain why?

Available internal / external expertise with MySQL (it's easier to google solutions for existing problems)
Cassandra is much harder to reason about due to eventual consistency and limited transaction support
Moving to a new datastore is a lot of pain and it doesn't seem to be justified
You can check out the slides below for their usecases:
MySQL at Facebook
Scale at Facebook

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