What is a Hybrid Cloud?

Understanding the concept of a hybrid cloud is easier if you first understand the key differences between public and private cloud services. A public cloud is a virtual network of servers and services, exposed as compute resources, storage, and service…

What is Apache Cassandra?

Apache Cassandra is a distributed, highly scalable,  high performance NoSQL database.  It offers several advantages over traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS), particularly in write-intensive, globally distributed, high availability situations that span geographies and datacenters. Apache Cassandra is Open Source…

What is a NoSQL Database?

Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) are the traditional software platform for storing, indexing, querying and analyzing data.  Relational Databases expose data as tables, where data can be grouped into rows, with columns defining the datatype to be stored, such as numeric,…