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Testing the Suitability of Cassandra for Cloud Computing Environments

Authors:
Felix Beyer
Arne Koschel
Christian Schulz
Michael Schäfer
Irina Astrova
Stella Gatziu Grivas
Marc Schaaf
Alexander Reich

Keywords: Cloud computing, Cassandra, consistency, availability, partition tolerance, experiments

Abstract:
Since relational database management systems (DBMSs) are ill-suited to cloud computing environments, multiple efforts are now underway to offer a viable alternative to relational DBMSs. These efforts have led to the rise of a new kind of DBMSs called NoSQL. One of the most visible products in this rise is Cassandra. Cassandra is a NoSQL DBMS, which can also be used as a clustered file system. Cassandra was claimed to be particularly well suited for cloud computing environments. Our goal in this paper was to confirm or deny that claim. Towards this goal, we conducted tests on Cassandra to determine what levels of consistency, availability and partition tolerance can be achieved and if these can be achieved without sacrificing performance.

Pages: 86 to 91

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-153-3

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011