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We settled on Cassandra for storage. It's scalable, has a flexible schema and is heavily used within Twitter. We did try to make this component pluggable though, so should not be hard to put in something else here.
### Zipkin query daemon
-Once the data is stored and indexed we need a way to extract it. This is where the query daemon comes in, providing the users with a simple Thrift api for finding and retrieving traces. See the Thrift file.
+Once the data is stored and indexed we need a way to extract it. This is where the query daemon comes in, providing the users with a simple Thrift api for finding and retrieving traces. See the Thrift file.
### UI
Most of our users access the data via our UI. It's a Rails app that uses D3 to visualize the trace data. Note that there is no built in authentication in the UI.