Apache Cassandra
Highly scalable distributed NoSQL database
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About Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra is a free and 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.
Key Features
- Linear scalability and high availability
- No single point of failure
- Wide-column data model
- Tunable consistency levels
- Multi-datacenter replication
- High write and read throughput
- Compression and encryption
- CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
Use Cases
Time-series data storage
IoT and sensor data management
Real-time analytics
Content management and catalogs
Fraud detection systems
Messaging and social media platforms
Financial services applications
Gaming and entertainment platforms