Cassandra

Cassandra is a highly scalable, high-performance distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. It is particularly well-suited for managing large amounts of structured data that can be easily distributed across multiple nodes in a cluster. Cassandra is open-source and was initially developed at Facebook before being open-sourced in 2008. It is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation project. The name "Cassandra" is derived from the Trojan princess in Greek mythology who was blessed with the gift of prophecy but cursed never to be believed. In Hebrew, Cassandra is transliterated as קסנדרה (Kasandra). In Spanish, it is Casandra, and in French, it is Cassandre. Cassandra's architecture is based on a dynamic ring-based architecture that allows for easy scalability and fault tolerance. It uses a peer-to-peer architecture and replicates data across multiple nodes to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. Cassandra is widely used in scenarios requiring high write and read throughput, such as messaging systems, time-series data, and IoT applications.