This article contains Quick and Easy tour of Cassandra database system and how to install Cassandra on your local windows system.
What is Apache Cassandra?
Apache Cassandra is an open source, distributed, decentralized, elastically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, tuneably consistent, column-oriented database that bases its distribution design on Amazon’s Dynamo and its data model on Google’s Bigtable. Created at Facebook, it is now used at some of the most popular sites on the Web.










