WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model — Arin SarkissianFor the last month or two the Digg engineering team has spent quite a bit of time looking into, playing with and finally deploying Cassandra in production. It’s been a super fun project to take on – but even before the fun began we had to spend quite a bit of time figuring out Cassandra’s data model… the phrase “WTF is a ’super column’” was uttered quite a few times. If you’re coming from an RDBM
