History of Cassandra

Last update Jun. 3^rd 2015 10:23:52 PM

Creation date Apr. 26^th 2011 8:34:37 PM

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  Alexis on Jun. 3^rd 2015 10:23:52 PMReport

  Release date

  2015-04-01

  Latest version

  2.1.4

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 9:40:30 PMReport

  Initial release

  2008

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 9:33:58 PMReport

  Latest version

  0.7.5

  Release date

  2011-04-27

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 9:13:37 PMReport

  Projects using it

  • Cisco's WebEx: to store user feed and activity
  • Digg
  • Twitter: local trends, analytics...

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 8:49:28 PMReport

  Viewer

  public

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 8:25:36 PMReport

  Platforms

  Cross-platform

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 8:10:34 PMReport

  Transaction support

  no

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  Alexis on May 9^th 2011 8:03:56 PMReport

  Best used

  When you write more than you read (logging). If every component of the system must be in Java. ("No one gets fired for choosing Apache's stuff.")

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  Alexis on Apr. 26^th 2011 8:37:25 PMReport

  Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(database)

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  Alexis on Apr. 26^th 2011 8:34:37 PMReport

  Mode

  70

  Name

  Cassandra

  Viewer

  unlisted

  Editor

  alexis

  Category

  it-development

  Website

  http://cassandra.apache.org/

  Development language

  Java

  License

  Apache

  Protocol

  Thrift (Binary)

  Best used

  When you write more than you read (logging). If every component of the system must be in Java. ("No one gets fired for choosing Apache's stuff.")

  Usage example

  Banking, financial industry (though not necessarily for financial transactions, but these industries are much bigger than that.) Writes are faster than reads, so one natural niche is real time data analysis.

  Main focus

  Best of BigTable and Dynamo