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Apache Cassandra

Scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

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Overview

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

  • Distributed and decentralized architecture
  • Linear scalability
  • High availability and fault tolerance
  • Tunable consistency
  • Support for replicating across multiple data centers
  • Cassandra Query Language (CQL)

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Masterless architecture for high availability
  • Linear scalability
  • Tunable consistency

Unique Value: Apache Cassandra provides a highly scalable and available database for managing massive amounts of data across distributed clusters.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Large-scale data storage IoT applications Time-series data Messaging and social media Fraud detection

✅ Best For

  • Storing and processing large volumes of time-series data
  • Powering large-scale, always-on applications

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Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Applications requiring strong consistency and ACID transactions
  • Systems with ad-hoc querying needs

🏆 Alternatives

ScyllaDB HBase Amazon DynamoDB

Cassandra offers better write performance and linear scalability compared to many other databases. It provides more flexibility in data distribution than traditional relational databases.

💻 Platforms

Linux Windows macOS API

🔌 Integrations

Apache Spark Apache Kafka Kubernetes Various data analysis and BI tools

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ GDPR ✓ SSO ✓ Dependent on the deployment environment and vendor

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: Open-source and free to use. Cloud offerings from vendors have free tiers.

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