Coding Blocks Overview of Object Oriented, Wide Column, and Vector Databases
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Feb 19, 2024 The hosts delve into object-oriented databases and document their storage comparisons, while exploring scalability in wide column stores like Azure Cosmos DB. They discuss the benefits of Cassandra for distributed databases and the cost dynamics of cloud services. The conversation transitions to vector databases' efficient data representation and machine learning concepts, touching on epoch converters' utility and digital security measures.
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Wide Column Stores: Scalability and Dynamic Columns
- Wide column stores offer massive horizontal scaling and dynamic columns, unlike relational databases.
- They are sometimes called two-dimensional key-value stores, with Google Bigtable as the origin.
Dynamic Columns vs. Columnar Storage
- Wide column stores offer dynamic columns, storing billions within a record.
- Unlike columnar storage in relational databases, wide column stores maintain a row format.
Cassandra's Advantages
- Cassandra's masterless architecture allows distributed writes and linear scalability with cheap hardware.
- Consider multiple regions for data safety and tweak throughput and isolation.
