#13: Cassandra
by Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database. It’s heavily optimized for writes, but also has intriguing read capabilities. Cassandra has near-linear scalability. In terms of CAP theorem it favours consistency over availability. Interestingly, despite NoSQL label, Cassandra tables have strict schema. Also, Cassandra Query Language is similar to SQL.
More materials
- Official website
- Cassandra writes in depth
- Cassandra Architecture and Write Path Anatomy
- The most important thing to know in Cassandra data modeling: The primary key
- The CAP Theorem
- Difference between UPDATE and INSERT in Cassandra?
- 7 mistakes when using Apache Cassandra
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