Database Reference
In-Depth Information
What Cassandra offers, and what it
doesn't
Cassandra is a fully distributed, masterless database, offering superior scalability and fault
tolerance to traditional single master databases. Compared with other popular distributed
databases like Riak, HBase, and Voldemort, Cassandra offers a uniquely robust and ex-
pressive interface for modeling and querying data. What follows is an overview of several
desirable database capabilities, with accompanying discussions of what Cassandra has to
offer in each category.
