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* Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed,Martin Wilke2009-08-134-0/+937
structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from Dynamo and the data model from Google's BigTable. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is eventually consistent. Like BigTable, Cassandra provides a ColumnFamily-based data model richer than typical key/value systems. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0. Cassandra is in production use at Facebook but is still under heavy development. WWW: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ PR: ports/137477 Submitted by: Gea-Suan Lin <gslin at gslin.org> Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=239458