On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 22:48 +0100, Bill de hOra wrote: > "Cluster" has a lot of meaning in the Java world already (a > collection > of app servers) and is tied to the physical model - all the others > are > tied to the logical model of the data. > > Putting "Database" underneath "Cluster" misses the point that the > database is distributed across the cluster - - even it it's not right > for Cassandra, "BigTable" captures this concept well. For me, that > the > database remains the uppermost concept even after physical > distribution > is largely the point of Cassandra.
+1 -- Eric Evans [email protected]
