While these early AI leaders may be from different industries with different business models – they do have one thing in common: they rely on the open source Apache Cassandra® database.

One popular tool is Apache’s Cassandra project, a NoSQL database designed to scale rapidly without affecting application performance. It’s an ideal platform for working with big data ...

Ironically, in the database world, the Cassandra system is fast becoming ... Google's BigTable model is the basis for Cassandra's data model. Like BigTable, Cassandra data is organized into columns ...

“You can build the data model, have a change ... “That is probably the most exciting thing to come to the Cassandra database in 15 years,” he said.

Latest version of Apache's open source distributed database can pack two billion columns into a row, which could be useful to big data cloud computing projects The cadre of volunteer developers ...

Cassandra is a powerful database because it stays running when many others fall down. As such it is used by companies as varied as Apple, eBay and Netflix to run their key services. This new ...

Neward said Cassandra provides a column-based structured key-value star store. However, the open source community implemented a layer that gives the database more of the look and feel of a relational ...