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An Apache Cassandra Breakthrough: ACID Transactions at Scale

3 years ago thenewstack.io

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Let’s just get the best part out first. Globally available, general-purpose transactions that work the way Cassandra works.

Cassandra assumes failures as a part of running a large distributed system.

The previous iterations of consensus protocols solved different parts of the problem, but each presented a trade-off that would violate some of Cassandra’s values.

The biggest impact will be in developer productivity, so let’s see what that looks like in practice.