How Cassandra Stores Data?

1.	How Cassandra Stores Data?
Answer» All data stored as bytes When you specify validator, CASSANDRA ensures those bytes are ENCODED as per requirement Then a comparator orders the column based on the ordering specific to the encoding While composite are just byte arrays with a specific encoding, for each component it STORES a two byte LENGTH followed by the byte encoded component followed by a TERMINATION bit.

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All data stored as bytes
When you specify validator, CASSANDRA ensures those bytes are ENCODED as per requirement
Then a comparator orders the column based on the ordering specific to the encoding
While composite are just byte arrays with a specific encoding, for each component it STORES a two byte LENGTH followed by the byte encoded component followed by a TERMINATION bit.

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