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A. SaccoBeginning Spring Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8764-4_10

10. Cassandra: Wide-Column Database

Andres Sacco1  
(1)
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

The non-relational databases you have seen so far can have specific information replicas but imply that you configure a master node indicating the slaves. Another problem is how to replicate the information, which sometimes needs a certain knowledge about configuring it.

This chapter explains how Cassandra offers you the ability to increase the number of nodes without the need to indicate which of them is the master, at least in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra1 configuration.

What Is Cassandra? ...

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