A few years back, as other NoSQL players such as MongoDB exploded on the scene, Apache Cassandra’s star was fading. The company that developed it, Facebook, had dumped it. Its community seemed ...

The Bigtable paper inspired several open source NoSQL databases including Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra, and Apache Accumulo. Bigtable uses a highly scalable, sparsely populated table structure ...

Facebook open sourced the project in mid-2008, and it is now a top-level Apache project. A variety of companies are using and contributing to Cassandra, including Digg, Twitter and Rackspace.

Furthermore, a brand-new study by DataStax, the cloud database vendor with a platform based on open source Cassandra technology, sheds further light on the high demand for NoSQL skills in general and ...

Born during the post-Y2K backlash that gave rise to innovations that are now the cornerstones of big data implementations, Cassandra has firmly entrenched itself as one of the most popular databases.

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a 'NoSQL' database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

Microsoft today announced the public preview of a new Cassandra database service for Azure Cosmos DB. The service, called Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, extends previous work that ...

In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed ...

While it shared some common lineage with what eventually became Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra was known as the highly performant, highly scalable distributed NoSQL database that provided ...

After years of development effort and community discussion, the open-source Apache Cassandra 5.0 database is finally generally available. The new database update offers enterprises the promise of ...