Wide-column databases in 2026: revisit Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB and YugabyteDB YCQL before you design another partition key

• Manoj Shukla
• November 1, 2026

Most teams meet a wide-column database through one table that grew too fast for everything else: an event log per user, a delivery history, a feed or a “last 90 days of activity” screen.