Sharding is a type of database partitioning. The sweet spot of cassandra is
to supporting fast random reads. This is achieved by grouping data based on
a partition key and replicate to different nodes. The querying should be in
such a way to look up data of one partition at a time.
Grouping data b
Hi,
If we think it the perspective of column family (table), its rows are split
into different nodes(Sharding) based on ring concept in Cassandra.
But the core unit of data storage (rows) id not spit across nodes, only copy is
maintained in different rows. All column associated to a single r
Partitioning is similar to sharding.
Mohammed
From: Adaryl "Bob" Wakefield, MBA [mailto:adaryl.wakefi...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 8:28 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: sharding vs what cassandra does
It’s my understanding that the way Cassandra replicates data across
