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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

You're reading from   Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week Get up and running with the fundamentals and functionalities of seven of the most popular NoSQL databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288867
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudarshan Kadambi Sudarshan Kadambi
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Aaron Ploetz Aaron Ploetz
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Devram Kandhare Devram Kandhare
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Preface 1. Introduction to NoSQL Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB 3. Neo4j 4. Redis 5. Cassandra 6. HBase 7. DynamoDB 8. InfluxDB 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

What problems does Cassandra solve?


Cassandra is designed to solve problems associated with operating at a large (web) scale. It was designed under similar principles discussed in Amazon's Dynamo paper,[7, p.205] where in a large, complicated system of interconnected hardware, something is always in a state of failure. Given Cassandra's masterless architecture, it is able to continue to perform operations despite a small (albeit significant) number of hardware failures.

In addition to high availability, Cassandra also provides network partition tolerance. When using a traditional RDBMS, reaching the limits of a particular server's resources can only be solved by vertical scaling or scaling up. Essentially, the database server is augmented with additional memory, CPU cores, or disks in an attempt to meet the growing dataset or operational load. Cassandra, on the other hand, embraces the concept of horizontal scaling or scaling out. That is, instead of adding more hardware resources to a server...

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