Cassandra Overview

Cassandra Overview

John DiFini John DiFini

John DiFini

Published Feb 15, 2017
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Apache's distributed DBMS

What is Cassandra?

  • Database Management System (DBMS)
  • Open-source (Apache)
  • Distributed - runs across many commodity servers[*]
  • Designed to handle large amounts of data
  • Fault-tolerant (No single point of failure, runs across multiple data centers, asynchronous masterless replication)

Fully Replicated[*]

Replication Factor

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