I have always been intrigued by the performance claims of Apache cassandra. So, I wanted to put the whole “wide rows” and the performance edge claims that wide-row data model said to offer to the test. Rumour has it, Facebook hired ex-Amazon engineers who wrote Dynamo to build cassandra. Anyways, a sound starting point is to… Continue reading
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How does the Log-Structured-Merge-Tree work?
If you are wondering why should you care about LSM Tree, In one of my previous posts Art of choosing a datastore , I have briefly touched upon LSM-Trees. But this writeup is the best out there if you want to learn the inner workings of a LSM-Tree. How does the Log-Structured-Merge-Tree work? This was Quora answer by David Jeske…. Continue reading