Re: Azure Cloud Storage - Tables

2010-09-08 Thread Benjamin Black
And having said all that: Azure Table storage model doesn't look like Cassandra. There is a schema, there are partition keys. It more resembles something like VoltDB than the map of maps (of maps) of Cassandra (and BigTable, and HBase). b On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Peter Harrison wrote:

Re: Azure Cloud Storage - Tables

2010-09-08 Thread Benjamin Black
They are not copying Cassandra with that, as it was in development for some time before Cassandra was released (possibly even before Cassandra development started). The BigTable-esque aspects, if they are 'copied' from anywhere, are copied from BigTable, just as they are in Cassandra. The underly

Azure Cloud Storage - Tables

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Harrison
Microsoft has essentially copied the Cassandra approach for it's Table Storage. See here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/azure/AzureStorage.aspx It is I believe a compliment of sorts, in the sense that it is a validation of the Cassandra approach. The reason I know about this is that I attended a