In my previous blog post, I introduced the Dynamo API Service, which is our project to make Apache Cassandra compatible with Amazon DynamoDB by building a middleware. In this blog post, I will share a few interesting challenges we encountered and how we tackled them.

To fulfill my capstone project requirement for the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) program, I and two of my classmates, Ziyan Zhang and Xiang Yue, collaborated with DataStax to develop a new module in the Stargate system to bring Amazon DynamoDB compatibility to Apache Cassandra. I will introduce our journey in two blog posts. Here in Part 1, I will provide some background on the project and describe the overall design of our system. In Part 2, I will discuss some interesting challenges we encountered and how we solved them.