Practice - Column-Family Stores (Wide-Column Stores)
Practice Questions
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What is a column-family store?
💡 Hint: Think about how data is organized in this type of database.
Give one characteristic of column-family stores.
💡 Hint: Focus on how they manage rows with many null values.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a primary characteristic of column-family stores?
💡 Hint: Think about how they manage data variability.
Column-family stores are optimized for high:
💡 Hint: Recall the performance aspects related to writing data.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a scenario using a column-family store for an IoT application managing temperature sensors in different locations. Describe how you would structure your data and explain why this structure is beneficial.
💡 Hint: Consider how sensor data can vary and the importance of timestamping.
Evaluate the use of a column-family store against a traditional relational database for a logging system. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
💡 Hint: Think about data integrity vs. flexibility and scalability.
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