Friday, February 19, 2010

Cassandra & Distributed File System

Unlike HBase, Cassandra has no dependencies on a distributed file system. However, in a sense it implements a partitioned strategy that effectively replaces any (otherwise) required hard dependence on distributed file system capabilities.

This statement should not be taken as an endorsement of one or the other. Instead, it is simply an important architectural observation that directly impacts the overall system architecture.

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