Cassandra (Apache Cassandra)

Cassandra - A popular choice of columnar database for use in big data applications. It is an open source database managed by The Apache Software Foundation.

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Source: DataInformed, 17 October 2013 09:01:35, http://data-informed.com/glossary-of-big-data-terms/

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Cassandra - An open source database in the form of a key-value store. Fast on read and write, good high availability. Crappy when it comes to non-simple schemas and the ability to do anything resembling SQL stuff. Consistency also isn’t one of its strong points (at least not for something like banking applications).

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Tsahi Levent-Levi, 14 November 2013 09:19:08, http://bloggeek.me/my-big-data-glossary/

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Cassandra - Distributed NoSQL storage system for managing very large amounts of structured data spread out across many commodity servers. Originally developed by the guys at Facebook, Cassandra is designed to handle big data workloads across multiple nodes with no single point of failure.

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Jamie Turner, 15 December 2014 11:14:48, http://blog.triggar.com/a-z-of-big-data-learn-the-lingo/

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Cassandra - A popular open source database management system managed by The Apache Software Foundation that has been designed to handle large volumes of data across distributed servers.

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Bernard Marr, 20 December 2014 10:44:46, http://smartdatacollective.com/bernardmarr/287086/big-data-22-key-terms-everyone-should-understand/