Tidbit: Lines of Code

October 18, 2011 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

According to a claim in the Non Relational Data Stores Panel, the query parser in MySQL alone spans 100'000 lines of code in C and the whole Cassandra Database is 30'000 lines of Java.

I don't know what to deduce from that, but it is certainly interesting.

Some directions of thought:

• Java is a more powerful language than C
• MySQL is much more sophisticated than Cassandra
• NoSQL databases are much less complex than relational databases
• ...