DistOS 2019F 2019-11-13
Readings
Cassandra & Dynamo
- Lakshman & Malik, "Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System" (LADIS 2009)
- DeCandia et al., "Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store" (SOSP 2007)
Discussion Questions
- What problems were Dynamo and Cassandra designed to solve? How similar are they?
- What were the requirements for Dynamo and Cassandra? Specifically, what did they not need?
- What other systems do they both depend on? Contrast with BigTable.
- Would you call these databases? Why or why not?