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Noticed in the NoSQL section that they still call Cassandra as wide column DB. It’s not true for a long time - CQL requires schema definition, and although it’s possible to emulate old behavior, it’s not wide column anymore - people just copy old things...

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I'm not 100% sure, but I think LinkedIn still uses it as a wide column store. At least, they've been using it a very long time and certainly used it that way before.

Even in 2019 it was late to use Thrift... And with C* 4.0 it should go away completely

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