Cassandra Database

Writen by Devil 5:40 PM - 9 Comments

What is Cassandra Database ?

  Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source non-relational database that offers continuous availability, linear scale performance, operational simplicity and easy data distribution across multiple data centers and cloud availability zones. 

Cassandra was originally developed at Facebook, was open sourced in 2008, and became a top-level Apache project in 2010

It has following properties 

• High scalability
• Manages very large volume of Data
• High availability with no single point of failure

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