Practice - Design of Apache Cassandra: A Distributed Column-Family Store
Practice Questions
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What is a key-value pair in the context of Cassandra?
💡 Hint: Think about how data is structured in simple terms.
Explain what a Bloom filter does.
💡 Hint: Consider how this would enhance search efficiency.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What unique role does the 'partition key' play in Cassandra?
💡 Hint: Think about how Cassandra organizes its data in a distributed manner.
True or False: Cassandra guarantees strong consistency.
💡 Hint: Remember the CAP theorem in distributed systems context.
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Challenge Problems
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If a company decides to scale its project using Cassandra while prioritizing both availability and consistency, how might they achieve this? Discuss possible configurations.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the trade-offs involved in tuning the replication factors and consistency levels.
Analyze the implications of eventual consistency in a real-world application where transactions are critical. What challenges might arise?
💡 Hint: Consider the environments that cannot tolerate delays and how consistency might be managed there.
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