
I have already talked about it but NoSQL is about diversity and includes various different tools and even kind of tools. Cassandra is one of these tools and is certainly and currently one of the most popular in the NoSQL ecosystem. Built by Facebook and currently in production at web giants like Digg, Twitter, Cassandra is a hybrid solution between Dynamo and BigTable. Hybrid firstly because Cassandra uses a column-oriented way of modeling data (inspired by the BigTable) and permit to use Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs…
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