articleACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewApr 14, 2010Closed access

Cassandra

ALAvinash LakshmanPMPrashant Malik

Meta (Israel)

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Abstract

Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing very large amounts of structured data spread out across many commodity servers, while providing highly available service with no single point of failure. Cassandra aims to run on top of an infrastructure of hundreds of nodes (possibly spread across different data centers). At this scale, small and large components fail continuously. The way Cassandra manages the persistent state in the face of these failures drives the reliability and scalability of the software systems relying on this service. While in many ways Cassandra resembles a database and shares many design and implementation strategies therewith, Cassandra does not support a full relational data…

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  • Computer science
  • Scalability
  • Server
  • Single point of failure
  • Reliability (semiconductor)
  • Throughput
  • Database
  • Service (business)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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