Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Keyspaces
Keyspaces are the outermost shells of Cassandra containers. It is the logical container of
tables. It can be roughly imagined as a database of a relational database system. Its purpose
is to group tables. In general, one application uses one keyspace, much like RDBMS.
Keyspaces hold properties such as replication factors and replica placement strategies,
which are globally applied to all the tables in the keyspace. Keyspaces are global manage-
ment points for an application.
