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The "FrontPage" page has been changed by JonathanEllis: https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FrontPage?action=diff&rev1=114&rev2=115 Comment: r/m ColumnFamily description {{{#!wiki red/solid If you would like to contribute to this wiki, please send an email to the mailing list dev.at.cassandra.apache-dot-org with your wiki username and we will be happy to add you. Contributions welcome! }}} - Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from [[http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf|Dynamo]] and the data model from Google's [[http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf|BigTable]]. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is [[http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/12/eventually_consistent.html|eventually consistent]]. Like BigTable, Cassandra provides a ColumnFamily-based data model richer than typical key/value systems. + Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from [[http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf|Dynamo]] and the log-structured storage engine from Google's [[http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf|BigTable]]. Cassandra is moving away from this wiki for user-facing documentation in favor of in-tree docs, linked below. ([[https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/trunk/doc|Pull requests welcome]]!)
