Benefits of Workshop Learning: a Cassandra Workshop Example
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The things I hate about Apache Cassandra
Intro First, let me start by saying I do not hate Cassandra. I love Cassandra. In its place,...
How to build your very own Cassandra 4.0 release
Over the last few months, I have been seeing references to Cassandra 4.0 and some of its new...
So you have a broken Cassandra SSTable file?
Every few months I have a customer come to me with the following concern: my compactions for one of...
Proposal for a new Cassandra cluster key compaction strategy
Cassandra storage is generally described as a log-structured merge tree (LSM). In general, LSM...
Why column stores?
Introduction I’ve been working with data in many forms for my entire career. During this time, I...
Cassandra as a time series database
When I think of Time series databases, my first thoughts go to my own experiences using a...
The case against auto increment in MySQL
Introduction In my travels to visit many customers over the last few years, I often see my...
Cassandra use cases: when to use and when not to use cassandra
Introduction I have a database server that has these features: High available by design. Can be...
