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Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition
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Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

by Sandeep Yarabarla, Graham Doman
April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
9h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Partitioners

So, we know that each Cassandra node is assigned a certain token range and is responsible for a subset of all the data. The component that is responsible for generating the partition key hash is called the partitioner. So, a partitioner is nothing but a hash function, which is used to calculate the hash for a given partition key and determines which node the data should reside on. Cassandra comes with three partitioners:

  • Murmur3Partitioner: This is the default partitioner in Cassandra 1.2 or higher. This partitioner uniformly distributes data across the cluster by calculating Murmur hash values. The hash values range from -263 to 263-1. Murmur3Partitioner is preferred since it has a faster hashing algorithm and has better performance ...
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