Phil Eaton 4/26/2026

Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra

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This article is part of a series interviewing software infrastructure developers. It features Branimir Lambov, a Cassandra committer and PMC member at IBM (via DataStax acquisition). He discusses his background, including a PhD in exact computation, and his work on Cassandra. Key projects include the Trie in the Log-Structured Merge Tree (LSM Tree) for improved memory and storage efficiency, deterministic token allocation, and the Unified Compaction Strategy in Cassandra 5. The interview covers how these projects evolved and their impact on database performance.

Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra

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