Practice - Data Placement Strategies
Practice Questions
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What defines the number of copies of each piece of data held in a distributed system?
💡 Hint: Think about how many copies you would want to prevent data loss.
What does a snitch do in a Cassandra setup?
💡 Hint: It relates to understanding where nodes are located.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the role of a partitioner in Cassandra?
💡 Hint: Think about how Cassandra decides where to store data.
True or False: A higher replication factor always results in better performance.
💡 Hint: Consider the effects of writing data to multiple nodes.
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Challenge Problems
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Explain how a low replication factor might affect a Cassandra cluster’s performance during a network partition.
💡 Hint: Consider how many safe copies are available if a partition occurs.
Design a hypothetical data placement strategy for a global application that needs quick access to user data while ensuring fault tolerance.
💡 Hint: Think about how you would leverage both speed and data safety.
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