Apache Cassandra

What is Apache Cassandra?

Apache Cassandra has become a leading NoSQL platform that powers many modern business applications. It offers continuous availability, high scalability and performance, strong security, and operational simplicity, all while reducing the overall cost of ownership. Cassandra is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance

Highlights

• Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure, making it the perfect platform for mission-critical data
• Best-in-class support for replicating data across multiple data centers, providing lower latency for users and the ability to survive regional outages
• Convenient column indexes with the performance of log-structured updates, strong support for denormalization and materialized views, and powerful built-in caching
• Automatic data replication to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance, with the ability to replace failed nodes without downtime
• Linear increase in read and write throughput as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications