Googling for a definition either returns results for a column oriented DB or gives very vague definitions. My understanding is that wide column stores consist of column families which consist of r...

Columnar database should store group of columns together. But Cassandra stores data row-wise. SS Table will hold multiple rows of data mapped to their corresponding partition key. So I feel like Ca...

There's a lot of confusion among these terms. I'd like to throw my understanding out and see if people agree. I have seen conflicting and wrong definitions all over the web. In my mind, wide column...

Reading several papers and documents on internet, I found many contradictory information about the Cassandra data model. There are many which identify it as a column oriented database, other as a r...

A few days ago I read about wide-column stored type of NoSQL and exclusively Apache-Cassandra. What I understand is that Cassandra consist of: A keyspace(like database in relational databases) and ...