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:
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
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
