apache cassandra

PostgreSQL OR APACHE CASSANDRA: WHICH ONE IS THE BETTER OPTION

Reading Time: 3 minutes We are living in the 20th century the century of technologies. Because of this, we come across a lot of data in our daily life. So it is important for us to have a database that can help in maintaining a huge amount of data. Now we have many popular databases in the market like PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL MongoDB, and many more. But the question Continue Reading

Apache Cassandra: Back to Basics

Reading Time: 5 minutes Apache Cassandra has made its mark in the world of NoSQL Databases. Its features like Partitioning, Clustering, and Ring topology make it unique.

Commit Log: A commitment that Cassandra provides.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome back, everyone. I have been working on Cassandra for quite some time now but never actually got to explore its working in depth. We know that its decentralized nature, as well as its ability to handle such a large volume of writes, makes it really commendable. But how does it manage to be efficient? How is it able to achieve what it is so Continue Reading

Is Apache Cassandra really the Database you need?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Welcome back, everyone. It has been quite some time since I have been working with Cassandra. To be honest, it is a quite cool database. Its decentralized nature, as well as its ability to handle such a large volume of writes, is really commendable. But as we know nothing is perfect. So is the Cassandra Database. What I mean by this is that you cannot Continue Reading

Cassandra Internals: Writing Process

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Apache Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source non-relational database that offers continuous availability, linear scale performance, operational simplicity and easy data distribution across multiple data centres and cloud availability zones. It was originally developed at Facebook The main reason that Cassandra was developed is to solve Inbox-search problem. To read more about Cassandra you can refer to this blog. Why Continue Reading