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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Cassandra storage model for early versions up to 2.2

The original underlying storage for Apache Cassandra was based on its use of the Thrift interface layer. If we were to look at how the underlying data was stored in older (pre-3.0) versions of Cassandra, we would see something similar to the following:

Figure 3.1: Demonstration of how data was stored in the older storage engine of Apache Cassandra. Notice that the data is partitioned (co-located) by its row key, and then each column is ordered by the column keys.

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, data is simply stored by its row key (also known as the partitioning key). Within ...

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