Features of Cassandra

There are a lot of outstanding technical features which makes Cassandra very popular. Following is a list of some popular features of Cassandra:

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High Scalability

Cassandra is highly scalable which facilitates you to add more hardware to attach more customers and more data as per requirement.

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Rigid Architecture

Cassandra has not a single point of failure and it is continuously available for business-critical applications that cannot afford a failure.

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Fast Linear-scale Performance

Cassandra is linearly scalable. It increases your throughput because it facilitates you to increase the number of nodes in the cluster. Therefore it maintains a quick response time.

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Fault tolerant

Cassandra is fault tolerant. Suppose, there are 4 nodes in a cluster, here each node has a copy of same data. If one node is no longer serving then other three nodes can served as per request.

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Flexible Data Storage

Cassandra supports all possible data formats like structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. It facilitates you to make changes to your data structures according to your need.

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Easy Data Distribution

Data distribution in Cassandra is very easy because it provides the flexibility to distribute data where you need by replicating data across multiple data centers.

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Transaction Support

Cassandra supports properties like Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID).

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Fast writes

Cassandra was designed to run on cheap commodity hardware. It performs blazingly fast writes and can store hundreds of terabytes of data, without sacrificing the read efficiency.