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Congratulations! You are almost halfway through this journey. You are at the point where it is necessary to meet the component responsible for information persistence; the sometimes neglected “data layer” will take on a new dimension when you have finished this chapter. It’s time to meet Apache Cassandra, a NoSQL database that provides high availability and scalability without compromising performance.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law .

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    Ki Sun Song, “Introduction to In-Memory Data Grid; Main Features.” http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/introduction-to-in-memory-data-grid-main-features/

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    Comparative study of NoSQL document, column store databases, and evaluation of Cassandra. http://airccse.org/journal/ijdms/papers/6414ijdms02.pdf

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    https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/architecture/architectureGossipAbout_c.html

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    http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml.html

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    http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/configuration/secureFireWall.html

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    How SoundCloud Uses Cassandra. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/soundcloud-cassandra

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    Spotify: How to Use Apache Cassandra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWaECFyhvxI

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    Netflix: A State of Xen Chaos Monkey & Cassandra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu01DmxQjWA

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Estrada, R., Ruiz, I. (2016). Storage: Apache Cassandra. In: Big Data SMACK. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2175-4_5

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