Apache Cassandra 1.1.6 / 1.0.12 / 0.8.10 / 0.7.10 / 1.2.0 beta1

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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 ]

· Wait for writes on synchronous read digest mismatch.
· Fix commitlog replay for nanotime-infected sstables.
· Preflight check ttl for maximum of 20 years.
· (Pig) fix widerow input with single column rows.
· Fix HH to compact with correct gcBefore, which avoids wiping out undelivered hints.
· LCS will merge up to 32 L0 sstables as intended.
· NTS will default unconfigured DC replicas to zero.
· Use default consistency level in counter validation if none is explicitly provide.
· Improve IAuthority interface by introducing fine-grained access permissions and grant/revoke commands.
· Fix assumption error in CLI when updating/describing keyspace.
· Adds offline sstablescrub to debian packaging.

Via: Apache Cassandra 1.1.6 / 1.0.12 / 0.8.10 / 0.7.10 / 1.2.0 beta1