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Cassandra
Eric Robertson edited this page May 10, 2016
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Cassandra is a wide-row store NoSQL database.
Cassandra uses partitioners to distribute data across nodes within database nodes. Nodes are organized into hierarchy of data centers contained by clusters.
Cassandra separates applications by key space. This can have an equivalence to GeoWave namespace. A keyspace contains one or more column families.
Cassandra performs best when data needed to satisfy a given query is located in the same partition key. The