What is Cassandra Database ?
Cassandra is a premier project by Apache
- An open source product
- It is primarily a column-oriented database
- Can be used as a hybrid database too
- Distributed and decentralized database
- Distributed and decentralized storage system
- Used for managing very large volume of structured, unstructured data
- Data can spread across host of clustered nodes
- Cassandra high availability features ensures no single point of failure
- Is fault tolerant, that avoids loss of data changes
- Cassandra can be configure for high scalability
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