Questions tagged [cassandra-2.0]

Cassandra 2.0 is a NoSQL database sponsored by Apache.

Cassandra advertises itself to have the following merits:

1. Proven (used by many large established companies);
2. Performant (peforms consistently well on NoSQL benchmarks);
3. 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.);
4. Decentralized (there are no single points of failure and no network bottlenecks. Every node in the cluster is identical);
5. Durable (durability is the property that writes, once completed, will survive permanently, even if the server is killed or crashes or loses power.); and
6. Elastic (read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with no downtime or interruption to applications);