[CASSANDRA-15102] Add Architecture Overview Documentation

• Type: Task
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation/Blog
• Labels: documentation pull-request-available
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Shane Lester
• Reporter: Elijah Augustin

Authors

Shane Lester

• Created: 25/Apr/19 19:40
• Updated: 09/May/19 21:35

Description

 

Topics/Concepts To Cover

 

• High level overview of the architecture
• Principles of Dynamo and how it is implemented in Cassandra
• Brief explanation of Gossip protocol
• Data distribution over nodes
• Brief explanation of partition key
• How replication of data is possible

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-15103 Add Failure Detection Documentation