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Gaurav Gupta
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Apache Cassandra - Awesome Part 1 - What is Apache Cassandra

Overview

Apache Cassandra is an open source, distributed, NoSQL database. It presents a partitioned wide column storage model with eventually consistent semantics.

  1. Open source - cassandra is open licensed. Anyone can contribute in this project.

  2. Distributed - These are the database that are stored on multiple locations either with Homogeneous or Heterogenous properties.
    Link: GFG fauna

  3. NoSQl Database - NoSQL databases (aka "not only SQL") are non-tabular databases and store data differently than relational tables. NoSQL databases come in a variety of types based on their data model. The main types are document, key-value, wide-column, and graph.

For partitioned wide column storage model, let's discuss this on next series.

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