On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Benoit Perroud <ben...@noisette.ch> wrote: > "orthogonal" means "90 degrees". Two lines are orthogonal if the > cross at 90 degrees. > > Two ideas are orthogonal means that they are not compatible.
No, it just means they don't have dependencies on each other. In this case, it means you could create a transactional layer on top of cassandra, without having to make it part of the core.
