Cassandra has several interesting architectural features that set it apart from a relational database. This chapter introduces the Cassandra architecture. You’ll also learn about the Cassandra storage engine and how the database stores its data.
The chapter explains the gossip protocol, which the nodes use to communicate among themselves. Read and write repairs are part of how Cassandra provides consistency. You’ll learn about failure detection and recovery. You’ll learn about hinted handoff, a feature that ensures that a failed node receives all the modifications ...
