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What is the “Cassandra” database?
“Cassandra” is the name of a highly distributable “nosql” database developed in Java by Facebook. This database was released to the public through the Apache project in July 2008 as “Apache...
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You have probably noticed that Apache Cassandra, through Thrift, exposes it’s column names, column values and super column names as binary. See the Thrift declarations: struct Column { 1: required...
View ArticleWhat’s missing from Cassandra and Thrift?
If you’ve spent any time at all with Cassandra you’ve gotten to know the Thrift interface that comes with that innovative NoSQL database. As you may know, Thrift is a framework that allows you to...
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