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Cassandra is the only NOSQL datastore I’m aware of, which is scalable, distributed, self replicating, eventually consistent, schema-less key-value store running on java which doesn’t have a single point of failure. HBase could also match most of these requirements, but Cassandra is easier to manage due to its tiny footprint. The one thing Cassandra doesn’t do today is indexing columns. Lets take a specific example to explain the problem. Lets say there are 100 rows in the datastore which have 5 columns each. If you want to find the row which says “Service=app2”, you will have to iterate one row at a time which is like full database scan. In a 100 row datastore if only one row had that particular column, it could take on an average about 50 rows before you find your data. While I’m sure there is a good reason why this doesn’t exist yet, the application inserting the data could build such an inverted index itself even today. Here is an example of how a table of i