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Cassandra has received a lot of attention of late, and more people are now evaluating it for their organization. As these folks work to get up to speed, the shortcomings in our documentation become all the more apparent. Easily, the worst of these is explaining the data model to those with an existing background in relational databases. The problem is that Cassandra’s data model is different enoug

By Jonathan Ellis, Systems Architect Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years.  Collectively, these alternatives have become known as “NoSQL databases.” The fundamental problem is that relational databases cannot handle many modern workloads.  There are three specific pr