Apache Cassandra 1.1.2 / 1.0.11 / 0.8.10 / 0.7.10

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It was built by Facebook for their services upon principles developed by Google and Amazon for BigTable and Dynamo.

Apache Cassandra is currently developed by Apache.

Cassandra is extremely fast, even with million of records and operations.

It is currently used in many Internet companies like Rackspace, Spotify, Netflix, RockMelt, Embedly, Ericcson, Expedia, FormSpring, Adobe, Twitter, Cisco, Digg, Mollom, Digital River, Page2RSS, Real, Reddit, eBuddy, EngineYard, Symantec, Soundcloud, Accenture, Rhapsody, Gowalla, HP, IBM, Mahalo, Walmart, OpenX and others.

Here are some key features of "Apache Cassandra":

· Professionally Supported
· Durable
· Elastic
· Decentralized
· Rich Data Model
· Fault Tolerant
· Cluster and Cloud Friendly
· Documentation and Tutorials

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Use CF comparator to sort indexed columns in SecondaryIndexManager.
· Added strategy_options to the KSMetaData.toString() output.
· Fixed range queries containing unqueried results.
· Allow updating column_alias types.
· Fixed deletion bug.
· Fixed computation of overlapping sstable for leveled compaction.
· Improved scrub and allow to run it offline.
· Fixed assertionError in StorageService.bulkLoad.

Via: Apache Cassandra 1.1.2 / 1.0.11 / 0.8.10 / 0.7.10