Apache announces nosql database Cassandra 1.0

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The Apache Software Foundation has the 1.0 release of Cassandra announced. These distributed nosql database originally developed by Facebook and is already in use by many large internet companies.

Cassandra is a scalable, distributed nosql database that has been developed on large clusters of servers to run it without too much resources to eat sweets. The largest cluster where the database is currently running on would be 300 servers and more than 300TB of data. The databases would be 5000 requests per second per servercore can handle. The speedups of the new version 1.0 compared to the 0.6 version of last year with write speeds of 40 percent and at speeds up to 400 percent.

According to Jonathan Ellis, president of Apache Cassandra, is the reliability of the Cassandra nosql database, one of the forces, and this would be illustrated by the amount of internet – and ict-companies that already use, such as Cisco, RackSpace, Reddit and Twitter. Cassandra 1.0 is made available under the Apache License v2.0. The database is in 2008, developed by Facebook, but was later under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.