Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is a peer-to-peer distributed database that provides high availability with no single point of failure. Data is distributed across nodes using consistent hashing.

Installation

# Docker (recommended)
docker run -d --name cassandra -p 9042:9042 cassandra:4

# Wait for startup then connect with cqlsh
docker exec -it cassandra cqlsh

# Node.js driver
npm install cassandra-driver

# Python driver
pip install cassandra-driver