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Cassandra does not use b-trees and in-place updates on disk. Instead, it uses a sstable/memtable model like Bigtable's: writes to each ColumnFamily are grouped together in an in-memory structure before being flushed (sorted and written to disk). This means that writes cost no random I/O, compared to