About Apache Cassandra

From Wikipedia - “Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure”.

Features of Apache Cassandra

1. Decentralized. No master node. Multiple nodes in a cluster. Data is distributed across nodes
2. Replication supported across multiple data centers.
3. Scalable - Throughput increase linearly with new machines
4. Fault-tolerant - Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtimes
5. Flexible consistency

Source code:

Version: cassandra-3.9