Project Sherlock

Paper

2010

Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System

Avinash Lakshman & Prashant Malik

Combines Dynamo's partitioning and replication with Bigtable's column-family data model, giving up any single point of coordination entirely.

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Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.