From 718b6f09d40520b82763276d8fb68031689b262d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John O'Neill Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:32:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Clarification around wide column stores and traditional column stores --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6f06b052..1d3829a1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -997,16 +997,18 @@ Document stores provide high flexibility and are often used for working with occ A wide column store's basic unit of data is a column (name/value pair). A column can be grouped in column families (analogous to a SQL table). Super column families further group column families. You can access each column independently with a row key, and columns with the same row key form a row. Each value contains a timestamp for versioning and for conflict resolution. -Google introduced [Bigtable](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) as the first wide column store, which influenced the open-source [HBase](https://www.mapr.com/blog/in-depth-look-hbase-architecture) often-used in the Hadoop ecosystem, and [Cassandra](http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/architecture/archIntro.html) from Facebook. Stores such as BigTable, HBase, and Cassandra maintain keys in lexicographic order, allowing efficient retrieval of selective key ranges. +Google introduced [Bigtable](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) as the first wide column store, which influenced the open-source [HBase](https://www.mapr.com/blog/in-depth-look-hbase-architecture) often-used in the Hadoop ecosystem, and [Cassandra](http://docs.datastax.com/en/archived/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/architecture/architectureIntro_c.html) from Facebook. Stores such as BigTable, HBase, and Cassandra maintain keys in lexicographic order, allowing efficient retrieval of selective key ranges. Wide column stores offer high availability and high scalability. They are often used for very large data sets. +Note that wide column stores are different from [column stores](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS), which more closely resemble traditional RDBMS. + ##### Source(s) and further reading: wide column store * [SQL & NoSQL, a brief history](http://blog.grio.com/2015/11/sql-nosql-a-brief-history.html) * [Bigtable architecture](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) * [HBase architecture](https://www.mapr.com/blog/in-depth-look-hbase-architecture) -* [Cassandra architecture](http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/architecture/archIntro.html) +* [Cassandra architecture](http://docs.datastax.com/en/archived/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/architecture/architectureIntro_c.html) #### Graph database