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Date Published
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Clare Schneider
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1956
Language
English
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Summary

Apache Cassandra is a scalable and robust open-source NoSQL database designed to handle vast amounts of distributed data without compromising on performance or availability. Its high availability and fault tolerance features make it a popular choice for organizations that deal with large-scale, dynamic datasets. Cassandra benefits from its decentralized peer-to-peer model, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, flexible design, performance, integration, no single point of failure, large dataset support, elasticity, replication, community support, time series data storage, high-write workloads, real-time analytics, content management systems, distributed databases, catalog and inventory systems, event logging and tracking, recommendation engines, message queues and communication platforms, big data integration. However, Cassandra may not be the right solution for small-scale applications, systems requiring strong ACID compliance, complex querying and joins, frequent updates or deletes, read-heavy workloads, static or infrequently changing schemas, single node deployments, data warehousing and business intelligence, resource limitations, short-lived data storage. CData Cassandra Drivers and Connectors provide bi-directional connectivity, easy integration with BI tools, analytics and reporting integration, ETL integration, custom development, SQL access to NoSQL data, secure and efficient data access, comprehensive data coverage, user-friendly configuration, cross-platform compatibility.