And having said all that: Azure Table storage model doesn't look like Cassandra. There is a schema, there are partition keys. It more resembles something like VoltDB than the map of maps (of maps) of Cassandra (and BigTable, and HBase).
b On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Peter Harrison <cheetah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Microsoft has essentially copied the Cassandra approach for it's Table > Storage. See here: > > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/azure/AzureStorage.aspx > > It is I believe a compliment of sorts, in the sense that it is a > validation of the Cassandra approach. The reason I know about this is > that I attended a presentation about Azure last week, and one of the > Azure team told us all about it. The Table Storage is essentially > Cassandra; although I guess reimplemented. > > That said it would have been better for them to actually use Cassandra > and commit development effort to help the project than simply > reimplement. Given their desire to promote Azure as a platform for > open source applications I would have thought this would be a no > brainer. >
