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Apache Cassandra

Scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

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Overview

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, wide-column store, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.

✨ Key Features

  • Distributed and decentralized architecture
  • Linear scalability
  • High availability and fault tolerance
  • Tunable consistency
  • Wide-column store data model
  • Cassandra Query Language (CQL)

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Masterless architecture for high availability
  • Linear scalability
  • Excellent write performance

Unique Value: Cassandra provides a highly scalable and fault-tolerant database solution for handling massive amounts of data across multiple data centers.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Large-scale data storage IoT applications Time-series data Messaging systems Fraud detection

✅ Best For

  • Massively scalable applications with high write throughput
  • Multi-datacenter deployments

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Applications requiring strong consistency and ACID transactions
  • Complex queries with joins and aggregations

🏆 Alternatives

Amazon DynamoDB HBase ScyllaDB MongoDB

Offers superior scalability and availability compared to many other NoSQL databases due to its masterless architecture, but can be more complex to manage.

💻 Platforms

Desktop API

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

Spark Kafka Hadoop API

💰 Pricing

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Free tier: Open source, free to use.

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