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After announcing back in September 2009 that they would be switching from a MySQL environment to a NoSQL BigTable solution, Digg engineers rewrote the majority of their site’s code using the Cassandra DB as their main data storage handler. Cassandra was chosen from other open-source NoSQL solutions, including CouchDB and MongoDB. <\/p>\n