In this section, we will take a look at some of the internals of Cassandra including read and write paths along with some of the mechanisms used to optimize both read and write operations. The write path is fairly straightforward which appends records to a log structure providing really high throughput. The read path consists of several data structures which are used to reduce the amount of disk seeks and optimize reads.
Cassandra internals
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