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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 and the CAP theorem

Many of the design ideas behind Apache Cassandra were largely influenced by Amazon Dynamo. It embraced partition-tolerance to be able to scale horizontally when needed, as well as to reduce the likelihood of an outage due to having a single point of failure. Cassandra also prefers to serve its data in a highly-available fashion, and embraces the concept of eventual consistency:

Figure 2.1: A graphical representation of Brewer's CAP theorem, using sides of a triangle to represent the combination of the different properties of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance

When data is written, it is replicated ...

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