Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a NoSQL solution.
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Which database could handle storage of billions/trillions of records?
We are looking at developing a tool to capture and analyze netflow data, of which we gather tremendous amounts of. Each day we capture about ~1.4 billion flow records which would look like this in ...
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What are the penalties of using many (thousands) of column families or keyspaces in Cassandra?
I am in the process of evaluating the best design for our Cassandra installation.
There is not so much information out there on the Internet about using the first two levels of access that Cassandra ...
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Infrastructure for Highly Concurrent, High Write DB
My requirements are:
3000 Connections
70-85% Write vs Read
Currently, we are maxing out a High-CPU, Extra Large Instance at 700 connections. All 8 cores are maxed. We think it's the number of ...
