Gossip Protocol in Cassandra
Gossip Protocol in Cassandra In Cassandra, the communication between nodes is often like peer-to-peer communication, where every node talks to the other. If that’s the case, then all the nodes talk to...
View ArticleOLTP vs OLAP
OLTP vs OLAP OLTP is said to be more of an online transactional system or data storage system, where the user does lots of online transactions using the data store. It is also said to have more ad-hoc...
View ArticleCassandra File System
Cassandra File System Cassandra is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising on performance. Cassandra file system is an HDFS file system that is...
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Capacity Planning with Apache Cassandra
Capacity Planning How is capacity planning done in Apache Cassandra? This is a frequently asked question which will now be simplified. There are two aspects to Capacity Planning- User data size and...
View ArticleMongoDB Vs Cassandra
Use of Cassandra Cassandra is simple to maintain and often the administrator has a minimal part to play here since most of the work is done automatically. So if it has to be scaled up or down, add a...
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Introduction to Snitches in Cassandra
What is a Snitch? A snitch determines which data centers and racks are to be written to and read from. The job of a snitch is to simply determine relative host proximity. Hence, if a node has 3...
View ArticleHBase Vs Cassandra
Use of Cassandra Cassandra is simple to maintain and often the administrator has a minimal part to play here since most of the work is done automatically. So if it has to be scaled up or down, add a...
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Introduction to Column Family with Cassandra
Column Family A Column family is similar to a table in RDBMS or Relational Database Management System and is a logical division that associates similar data. Basically, in similar data you tend to...
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Introduction to Cassandra Architecture
Cassandra Architecture In the world of RDBMS, there is something called as system tables where RDBMS maintains the metadata about tables. Hence, if you create a table and call it a column name, it...
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Facebook’s Giant Leap with Big Data!
Facebook today is a world-wide phenomenon that has caught up with young and old alike. Launched in 2004 by a bunch of Harvard University students, it was least expected to be such a rage. In a span of...
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How to open CQLSH of Cassandra installed on Windows
Before we start the CQLSH make sure that the Cassandra server installed on windows is running. If it is running fine, you will find the below image. To start cqlsh we need to have python installed on...
View ArticleChoosing the Right NoSQL Database
The above video is the recorded session of the webinar on the topic “Choosing the Right NoSQL Database – MongoDB® Vs Cassandra Vs HBase.“, which was conducted on 7th June’14. NoSQL includes a wide...
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Why Learn Cassandra with Hadoop?
“Companies are realizing they can mine valuable business intelligence to improve decision making and gain competitive edge. Tools such as Hadoop and Cassandra are making all of this possible and...
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Importance of Data Science With Cassandra
The rapid expansion of digital data through computers, mobile, video, social media, digital sensors, etc. combined with major breakthroughs in lower-cost processing power, open source database...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons to Learn Cassandra Decoded!
In the world of NoSQL database, there are various platforms vying to position itself to the user as the best choice to handle Big Data. Often platforms are indigenously developed by organizations to...
View ArticleCassandra Use Cases
Where to use Cassandra? Setting up Cassandra is quite simple and the maintenance is automatically done. The platform is quite fast even when it is scaled up or a node is added. Cassandra also takes...
View ArticleIntroduction to Apache Thrift
Introduction to Apache Thrift Thrift is basically a driver level interface that provides API for client implementation. In other words you will know the server, the methods in the server and how the...
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Face Off: MongoDB Vs HBase Vs Cassandra
When to use a NoSQL Database? NoSQL databases are considered for the following conditions: Storage required to handle very high load Many write operations on the storage Horizontally scalable storage...
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