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From: Sanjay Sharma <sanjay.sharma@impetus.co.in>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:23:03 +0530
Subject: RE: A very short summary on Cassandra for a book
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Hi Jonathan,
I fear 'row-oriented' could fuel the holy war between 'row-based RDBMS' and=
 'column-oriented NoSQL databases'

Some related reads here -
-http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/03/distinguishing-two-major-types-of_=
29.html
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra says- "The values from a col=
umn family for each key are stored together, making Cassandra a hybrid betw=
een a column-oriented DBMS and a row-oriented store"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra certainly needs some cleanup!

Cheers,
Sanjay


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbellis@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:11 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: A very short summary on Cassandra for a book

Keep it simple.  Something like "Cassandra is a row-oriented, fully
distributed database designed for scalability, availability, and
durability."

Trying to explain the data model in two sentences is not going to
work, and "4 or 5 dimension associated arrays" is the wrong tree to
bark up entirely.  ("row-oriented" is the right one. :)

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Karoly Negyesi <chx1975@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a scalability chapter in a book and I need to mention
> Apache Cassandra although it's just a mention. Still I would not like
> to be sloppy and would like to get verification whether my summary is
> accurate. "Cassandra stores four or five dimension associated arrays.
> The first dimension is fixed on creation of the database but the rest
> can be infinitely large. Inserts are super fast and can happen to any
> database server in the cluster. However, the system is append only
> there so there is no in-place update operation like increment. Also
> sorting happens on insert time."
>
> Thanks
>
> Karoly Negyesi
>


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