Tag: Cassandra
Top 10 Open Source Databases
A humongous amount of data is being generated across the globe each day, thanks to technologies like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence....
What Does Big Data Mean to You
Big Data is a combination of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data collected by organisations that can be used for machine learning, predictive modelling, fraud...
An Introduction to Cassandra
A database is an organised collection of data that is generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system. There are numerous databases that...
What’s Hot about MongoDB, HBase and Cassandra
MongoDB, HBase and Cassandra are the buzz words in the database domain. All three have their strong points and their failings. The author gives...
Seven Design Decisions that Apache Cassandra’s Successor is Built On
ScyllaDB is the next-generation Apache Cassandra compatible database. Its user list of IBM, Zenly, Snapfish, AdGear, etc, is in itself a testament to its...
Why you need Elassandra to leverage your huge data stack
Every business organisation, right from a startup to a multinational company, strives to gain actionable insights from their data. The preference is to have...
Apache Cassandra: The NoSQL Scalable Database
This article introduces readers to the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, and provides them with use cases for which it is suitable.
Apache Cassandra is a...
An Overview of Apache Cassandra
This article explores Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system that is capable of handling large amounts of data across many servers...
The Database Demands of Peta-scale Computing
Let's take a brief look at the challenges for next-generation databases.
In the previous article we discussed that as data volumes grow towards the peta-scale...
Databases in the Era of Cloud Computing and Big Data
We take a look at the directions in which databases are evolving, driven by the twin factors of the "Cloud" and "Big Data". Let's...