cassandra — Apache Cassandra is a highly-scalable, transactional distributed partitioned row store designed for fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure.

Apache Cassandra is a highly-scalable, transactional distributed partitioned row store designed for fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure.

About this project

Apache Cassandra is a distributed database that organizes data into tables with required primary keys. It utilizes partitioning to distribute data across multiple machines in an application-transparent manner, automatically repartitioning as nodes are added or removed from the cluster. Key features include: - Row Store Architecture: Organizes data by rows and columns, similar to relational databases. - Cassandra Query Language (CQL): A query language closely related to SQL, supporting collections but excluding joins and subqueries. - Linear Scalability: Designed to scale across commodity hardware or cloud environments without compromising performance. - Fault-Tolerance: Proven ability to maintain operations across distributed nodes. Technical requirements for operation include Java (for the server) and Python (for the cqlsh command-line interface).