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.

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