Overview
Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, high-performance distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.
Key Features
- Decentralized: Every node in the cluster is identical.
- Elastic Scalability: Add nodes without downtime.
- Fault Tolerant: Data is automatically replicated.
- Tunable Consistency: Balance between availability and consistency.