Cassandra Free Big Data Tool
Free And Open Source NoSQL Distributed Database
Manage massive amounts of data with a highly scalable, high-performance big data database that has no single point of failure and no network bottleneck.
Overview
Apache Cassandra is a free and open source distributed NoSQL database. It is designed to handle a huge amount of data. Apache Cassandra is a cross-platform and one of the best NoSQL databases for big data. It is a highly scalable, high-performance, and highly available big data database. Allows managing huge volumes of data spread across numerous servers. Cassandra open source database is ideal for applications that can not afford to lose data. There are no single points of failure and network bottlenecks.
It comes with a wide range of features including Elastic Scalability, Flexible Data Storage, Fast Writes, and many more. Cassandra is highly scalable and allows to add more hardware to accommodate more customers. It can handle all possible data formats such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. In addition, it can dynamically incorporate changes to the data structures as per requirements. Apache Cassandra has lightning-fast write speeds and can store hundreds of terabytes of data without losing read performance. It is written in Java and Python. The license for this big data database is Apache-2.0.
System Requirements
In order to install Apache Cassandra, you must have the following softwares:
- Java
- User with sudo privileges
Features
Following are the key features of Apache Cassandra:
- Free and open source
- Distributed
- Fast linear-scale performance
- Flexible data storage
- Fault tolerance
- Fast writes
- Elastic scalability
- Audit Logging
- Full Query Logging (FQL)
- Virtual Tables
Installation
Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu
Add the repository to the sources list.
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian 40x main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.list'
Execute command to pull the public key.
wget -q -O - https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/KEYS | sudo apt-key add -
Update the repository package list.
sudo apt update
Run the below command to install Cassandra.
sudo apt install cassandra
