Many column family databases, including Cassandra, include the concept of a supercolumn and a supercolumn family. Structurally, it is a bit like turducken in turducken.

The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to hold up to 2 billion columns per row.

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 ...

The developers behind Apache Cassandra are confident that their distributed database management system is ready for general enterprise use, and, after three years of development, have released ...

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 ...

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was granted the gift of prophesy, but cursed with an inability to convince others of her predictions - a sort of unbelievable 'oracle,' if you like. Ironically, in the ...

Apache Cassandra 5.0 debuts bringing new index, vector and performance gains to the distributed open source database.

Like other "wide column" databases that began life as key-value stores, Cassandra was first known for fast writes, but over the years, read performance has caught up.

The years-long Big Data skills shortage still persists despite numerous attempts to alleviate it, resulting in high demand and high salaries for developers with NoSQL skills, especially Apache ...

Storage-Attached Indexing is a robust and powerful index in Apache Cassandra, making the open-source, scale-out, cloud-native NoSQL database more usable.