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# [Apache Cassandra Introduction](https://erichallow.cloud/apache-cassandra-introduction?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How It Started Apache Cassandra is an open-source database developed by Facebook around 2008. It was developed to address the growing need for a database that could scale while maintaining no single point of failure. This helped power Facebook's inbo...

Mar 7, 2021 · 11 min read · erichallow.cloud  
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