What is Bloom filter in Cassandra?

Question

Could someone tell me what is Bloom filter in Cassandra?

Answer 1

Bloom Filter in Cassandra is actually a Data Structure, that is employed by Cassandra, to facilitate easy and faster validation in a file. So, a Bloom Filter according to Cassandra, is a probabilistic Data Structure that allows it to determine one of the two possible states, that is either the data is present in the file, or not present.

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