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In BigTable/GFS and Cassandra terminology, what is the definition of a SSTable?

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Sorted Strings Table (borrowed from google) is a file of key/value string pairs, sorted by keys

Schildmeijer
Thanks for yet another excellent SO Cassandra answer! BTW, have you seen this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573106/what-are-the-alternative-ways-to-model-mm-relations-in-cassandra
knorv