Cassandra
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Manage massive amounts of data, fast, without losing sleep.
CategoryDatabases
PricingFree, open source
Self-hostableYes
Repositoryapache/cassandra
LicenseApache-2.0
LanguageJava
Last activityOct 2026Active
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