Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing very large amounts of structured data spread out across many commodity servers, while providing highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a type of nosql database Cassandra is being used by some of the biggest companies such as facebook, twitter, cisco, rackspace, ebay, twitter, netflix, and more.
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To be able to install cassandra as a service/daemon, download commons daemon as noted above
Copy the cassandra archive (and commons daemon archive) to each node in the cassandra cluster, to the desired installation directory
In this guide, we will use the following: Cassandra handles the huge amount of data with its distributed architecture Data is placed on different machines with more than one replication factor that provides high availability and no single point of failure.
