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I would have loved to see Cassandra and an entrant from an ACID compliant Memory Only DB like VoltDB. Still it looks like a good read. Anyone selling a used cop

by dkhenry 14y ago

I would have loved to see Cassandra and an entrant from an ACID compliant Memory Only DB like VoltDB. Still it looks like a good read. Anyone selling a used copy ?

jimbojw 14y ago
We considered Cassandra early on. After much discussion, Eric and I decided against including it. Cassandra implements a BigTable-esque API and also takes a page from the Amazon Dynamo playbook to implement ring-based sharding. We felt that HBase and Riak more faithfully represented BigTable and Dynamo respectively. Writing about these two databases gave us a better chance to discuss the columnar and key/value genres independently. It was definitely a tough choice though.