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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. As it became clear that this technology was suitable for other purposes, the company gave Cassandra to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), where it became an open-source project (it was voted into a top-level project in 2010).

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The open source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ® has two defining characteristics that make it perfectly suited to meet these needs: it’s geographically distributed, and it can respond to spikes in traffic without adverse effects to its unmatched throughput and low latency.