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    Apache Cassandra 1.2 Documentation

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    Managing and accessing data¶

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    This section includes a description of the journey that data written to and read from the database takes, the hinted handoff feature, areas of ACID conformance and non-conformance, and data consistency. Also covered are the client utilities and application programming interfaces (APIs) for developing applications for data storage and retrieval.

    • About writes
      • About the write path
      • How Cassandra stores data
      • About secondary indexes updates
    • About hinted handoff writes
    • About reads
      • Reading a clustered row
      • About the read path
      • How write patterns affect reads
      • How the row cache affects reads
      • How compaction and compression affect reads
    • About transactions and concurrency control
      • Atomicity in Cassandra
      • Tunable consistency in Cassandra
      • Isolation in Cassandra
      • Durability in Cassandra
    • About data consistency
      • Tunable consistency for client requests
      • About Cassandra's built-in consistency repair features
    • Cassandra client APIs
      • About the Cassandra CLI
      • About CQL
      • Other high-level clients
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