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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO Business Intelligence

By Jeff Carpenter You might have heard of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database. Nothing on the market could handle the hundreds of millions of users that were on the platform at peak times, spread across tens of thousands of servers spread across data centers around the world.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

Keeping it at acceptable levels requires an underlying data architecture that can handle the demands of globally deployed real-time applications. Even as the world has gotten smaller, exactly where your data lives still makes a difference in terms of speed and latency. Cassandra is both horizontally scalable and data-center aware. .