Ok in this particular context it means no dependencies. Thanks for your precision.
Kind regards, Benoit. 2010/4/24 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Benoit Perroud <ben...@noisette.ch> wrote: >> "orthogonal" means "90 degrees". Two lines are orthogonal if the >> cross at 90 degrees. >> >> Two ideas are orthogonal means that they are not compatible. > > No, it just means they don't have dependencies on each other. In this > case, it means you could create a transactional layer on top of > cassandra, without having to make it part of the core. >
