* It is scalable, fault-tolerant, and consistent.
* It is a column-oriented database.
* Its distribution design is based on Amazon’s Dynamo and its data model on Google’s Bigtable.
* Created at Facebook, it differs sharply from relational database management systems.
* Cassandra implements a Dynamo-style replication model with no single point of failure, but adds a more powerful “column family” data model.
* Cassandra is being used by some of the biggest companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Cisco, Rackspace, ebay, Twitter, Netflix, and more.
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