Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Summary: Cassandra

That covers Cassandra's architecture, from the write path to compaction and tombstones. Here is the short version, all in one place.

Summary

  1. Cassandra is a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and highly available NoSQL database.
  2. It was built on the assumption that software or hardware failures will happen.
  3. Cassandra is a peer-to-peer distributed system: it has no leader and no follower nodes. Every node is equal, and there is no single point of failure.
  4. Data, in Cassandra, is automatically distributed across nodes. 5

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