cassandra internals

Indexes in Cassandra

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cassandra is a distributed database from Apache which is highly scalable and effective in managing large amounts of structured data. It provides high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra is column oriented DB. Often used for time series data. Primary keys in Cassandra It is a primary key database which means data is persisted and organised around a cluster based on hash values(partition 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