Can Cassandra Beat RDBMS Distributed Bottlenecks? A Deep Dive into Decentralized Databases
The article traces the evolution from Codd's relational model to modern RDBMS scaling limits, explains why centralized Hadoop/HBase architectures struggle with high‑concurrency workloads, and shows how Cassandra’s decentralized design—using consistent hashing, gossip, and virtual nodes—overcomes these bottlenecks while offering flexible consistency guarantees.
