October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
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English
Murmur3Partitioner is an improvement in efficiency over RandomPartitioner, and is currently the default partitioner. The murmur3 hashing algorithm is more efficient, because Cassandra does not really need the extra benefits provided by a cryptographic hash (MD5). Possible token values range from -(263) to (263)-1.
Important points about Apache Cassandra's partitioners: