Database / Apache Cassandra Interview Questions

How does Cassandra store data?

The data storage path in Cassandra begins with the memtable where the data is stored temporarily and also to a commit log. And once committed, the data is periodically flushed and written into SSTable.

Logging data in the commit log,
Writing data to the memtable,
Flushing data from the memtable,
Storing data on disk in SSTables.

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