On the other hand, the new storage engine changes in Apache Cassandra 3.0 offer several improvements. With version 3.0 and up, stored data is now organized like this:
Figure 3.2: Demonstration of how data is stored in the new storage engine used by Apache Cassandra 3.0 and up. While data is still partitioned in a similar manner, rows are now first-class citizens.
The preceding figure shows that, while data is still partitioned similarly to how it always was, there is a new structure present. The row is now part of the storage engine. This allows for the data model and the Cassandra language ...
