Discuss and explain the various types of Partitioners in Cassandra?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

Murmur3 Partitioner: It is the default and the most important partitioner as it is better and well performed than the others. Its speed is more than Random Partitioner. With all of this, it is also functional for even distribution. It uses 64-bit hash values with Range: 263 to 263-1

Random Partitioner: Before the arrival of Cassandra 1.2, Random Partitioner was identified as the default. It is worked together with vnodes. As same as above, it is also functional as for even distribution. MD5 hash values partition key with Range: 0 to 2127-1

Byte Ordered Partitioner: Byte Ordered Partitioner is a system that are beneficially to organize the location of the keys in the Cassandra. raw byte array value in Byte ordered Partitioner of the row key checks and make the decision regarding the storage of rows on the nodes.

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