A Brief History of Data

with apologies to Dr. Hawking for appropriating this title!

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Some time ago I made the move from Oracle to DataStax. DataStax is a company built around supporting Apache Cassandra and helps to improve Cassandra by contributing its work via the Cassandra Enhancement Proposals (CEP) process.

As a long-time RDBMS guy, learning Cassandra was an eye opening experience. Cassandra is a wholly different…