Introduction to Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is an open source, distributed data storage system.

Cassandra is developed by Facebook and open-sourced in July 2008.

Cassandra is a NOSQL(schema-free, horizontally scalable) database written in Java.

Features

a.   Cassandra is decentralized database, so there is no single point of failure.

b.   Cassandra offer schema-free data model.

c.    You can interact with Cassandra database from variety of languages like Java, C#, Scala, Python and Ruby etc.,

d.   Cassandra is fast and can able to process thousands of operations in a second.

e.   Cassandra is column-oriented database

f.     Cassandra is horizontally scalable, where you can add more hardware resources to accommodate more customers.

g.   Cassandra is linearly scalable, where performance is increased as you add more nodes to the Cassandra cluster.

h.   Cassandra supports structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

i.     Cassandra supports ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability) properties.

j.     Cassandra provides CQL (Cassandra Query language) to query Cassandra cluster.

k.    Cassandra can comfortably run on commodity software.

l.     Cassandra tables do not have fixed schema, some rows can have different columns than other rows.

  

What is the latest version of Cassandra?

At the time of writing this tutorial, 3.11.4 is the latest version of Cassandra.

Reference

https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/index.html

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