3. • First release in 2008
• Supported versions: 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 3.0.x,
3.x
• Used by Apple, Netflix, eBay, Reddit, …
4. • Big Data (Volume, Velocity, Variety)
• (Near-linear) horizontal scalability
• Fully distributed, no SPoF
• Data Replication
• Modelling include data duplication
5. –ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
“It’s a great tool and we like it, but too often we see
teams run into trouble using it. We recommend
using Cassandra carefully. Teams often
misunderstand the use case for Cassandra,
attempting to use it as a general-purpose data
store when in fact it is optimized for fast reads
on large data sets based on predefined keys or
indexes. (…)”