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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. Cassandra aims to run on top
of an infrastructure of hundreds of nodes (possibly spread
across different data centers). At this scale, small and large
components fail continuously. The way Cassandra man-
ages the persistent state in the face of these failures drives
the reliability and scalability of the software systems rely-
ing on this service. While in many ways Cassandra resem-
bles a database and shares many design and implementation
strategies therewith, Cassandra does not support a full rela-
tional data model; instead, it provides clients with a simple
data model that supports dynamic control over data lay-
out and format. Cassandra system was designed to run on
cheap commodity hardware and handle high write through-
put while not sacrificing read efficiency.