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Cassandra: Structured Key-Value based storage system

December 11th, 2009

Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It was initially developed by Facebook for storing very large amounts of data. Jeff Hammerbacher, who led the Facebook Data team at the time, has described Cassandra as a BigTable data model running on a Amazon Dynamo-like infrastructure. » Read more: Cassandra: Structured Key-Value based storage system