What is Apache Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL distributed database trusted by thousands of companies for scalability and high availability without compromising performance. …

Oct 29, 2025 · You can start Cassandra with sudo service cassandra start and stop it with sudo service cassandra stop. However, normally the service will start automatically. For this reason be sure to …

Cassandra is a NoSQL distributed database. By design, NoSQL databases are lightweight, open-source, non-relational, and largely distributed. Counted among their strengths are horizontal …

Welcome to Apache Cassandra’s documentation! This is the official documentation for Apache Cassandra. If you would like to contribute to this documentation, you are welcome to do so by …

Read through the Cassandra Basics to learn main concepts and how Cassandra works at a high level. To understand Cassandra in more detail, head over to the Docs. Browse through the Case Studies …

Apache Cassandra powers mission-critical deployments with improved performance and unparalleled levels of scale in the cloud.

Apache Cassandra was designed as a best-in-class combination of both systems to meet emerging large scale, both in data footprint and query volume, storage requirements. As applications began to …

Apache Cassandra® 5.0: Moving Toward an AI-Driven Future Cassandra 5.0 is coming soon! We are excited about the upcoming availability of Apache Cassandra 5.0, the project’s major release for 2023!

This section covers how to get started using Apache Cassandra and should be the first thing to read if you are new to Cassandra.

Cassandra partitions data over the storage nodes using a variant of consistent hashing for data distribution. Hashing is a technique used to map data with which given a key, a hash function …