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How much of the book is directly applicable to Cassandra? I understand that Apache Cassandra is regarded as the “open-source” version of DynamoDB?
by deckarep 6y ago
How much of the book is directly applicable to Cassandra? I understand that Apache Cassandra is regarded as the “open-source” version of DynamoDB?
- abd12 6y agoThe concepts are definitely applicable. You'll need to do some small work to translate vocabulary and work around a slightly different feature set, but most of it should work for you. And yep, Cassandra is pretty similar to DynamoDB. Both are wide-column data stores. Some of the original folks that worked on Dynamo (not DynamoDB) at Amazon.com went to Facebook and worked on Cassandra. The concepts underlying Dynamo because the basis for DynamoDB at AWS. For more background on Dynamo, check out The Dynamo Paper: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...
- erik_seaberg 6y agoIf you take Cassandra and remove the power user features whose runtime cost is hard to predict, what you're left with is pretty close to DynamoDB. It's harder to use and incompatible with everything else, but its key feature is not overpromising capacity. We're only considering alternatives because there's no cost saving story around tiered storage.