Top "Wide-column-store" questions

A wide column store is a type of key-value database.

Why many refer to Cassandra as a Column oriented database?

Reading several papers and documents on internet, I found many contradictory information about the Cassandra data model. There are many …

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Is Cassandra a column oriented or columnar database

Columnar database should store group of columns together. But Cassandra stores data row-wise. SS Table will hold multiple rows of …

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What exactly is a wide column store?

Googling for a definition either returns results for a column oriented DB or gives very vague definitions. My understanding is …

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Comparing Cassandra structure with Relational Databases

A few days ago I read about wide-column stored type of NoSQL and exclusively Apache-Cassandra. What I understand is that …

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