Does Cassandra support sharding?

Question

Does Apache Cassandra support sharding?

Apologize that this question must seem trivial, but I cannot seem to find the answer. I have read that Cassandra was partially mo

Answer 1

yes, cassandra supports sharding, but in its own way.

In Mongodb each secondary node contains full data of primary node but in Cassandra, each secondary node has responsibility of keeping only some key partitions of data.