October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
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:

When data is written, it is replicated ...