Cassandra DB:

It was first developed by FB then moved to Apache.

It’s one on NoSQL DB which stores data in the form of Key values and it’s a cluster DB where it
doesn’t have a master slave concept..

It uses clustering concept and it have Rings, a ring is a connection between various nodes in the
cluster (It is something like interconnect in Oracle RAC)

When a request comes to one of the node in Cassandra datais written to the cache of that node and
then updates to DB and also to the other node that operation is finished. This communication
between different nodes in a ring is called “Gossip”.

Dzone.com is good for Cassandra DB architecture.

Cassandra doesn’t have a Relationship(s) like in RDBMS instead it has Collections which keep the
data grouped together by keeping it in keypad value.

Keyspace in cassendra is similar to schema in RDBMS, Column Family is analogous to table in RDBMS