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Apache Cassandra

by John Doe

Proven Cassandra is in use at Constant Contact, CERN, Comcast, eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Hulu, Instagram, Intuit, Netflix, Reddit, The Weather Channel, and over 1500 more companies that have large, active data sets.Fault tolerant Data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtime. Performant Cassandra consistently outperforms popular NoSQL alternatives in benchmarks and real applications, primarily because of fundamental architectural choices. Decentralized There are no single points of failure. There are no network bottlenecks. Every node in the cluster is identical. Scalable Some of the largest production deployments include Apple's, with over 75,000 nodes storing over 10 PB of data, Netflix (2,500 nodes, 420 TB, over 1 trillion requests per day), Chinese search engine Easou (270 nodes, 300 TB, over 800 million requests per day), and eBay (over 100 nodes, 250 TB). Durable Cassandra is suitable for applications that can't afford to lose data, even when an entire data center goes down. You're in control Choose between synchronous or asynchronous replication for each update. Highly available asynchronous operations are optimized with features like Hinted Handoff and Read Repair.Elastic Read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications. Professionally Supported Cassandra support contracts and services are available from third parties.

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Proven

Cassandra is in use at Constant Contact, CERN, Comcast, eBay, GitHub, GoDaddy, Hulu, Instagram, Intuit, Netflix, Reddit, The Weather Channel, and over 1500 more companies that have large, active data sets.

Fault tolerant

Data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtime.

Performant

Cassandra consistently outperforms popular NoSQL alternatives in benchmarks and real applications, primarily because of fundamental architectural choices.

Decentralized

There are no single points of failure. There are no network bottlenecks. Every node in the cluster is identical.

Scalable

Some of the largest production deployments include Apple's, with over 75,000 nodes storing over 10 PB of data, Netflix (2,500 nodes, 420 TB, over 1 trillion requests per day), Chinese search engine Easou (270 nodes, 300 TB, over 800 million requests per day), and eBay (over 100 nodes, 250 TB).

Durable

Cassandra is suitable for applications that can't afford to lose data, even when an entire data center goes down.

You're in control

Choose between synchronous or asynchronous replication for each update. Highly available asynchronous operations are optimized with features like Hinted Handoff and Read Repair.

Elastic

Read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications.

Professionally Supported

Cassandra support contracts and services are available from third parties.

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