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A few years back, as other NoSQL players such as MongoDB exploded on the scene, Apache Cassandra's star was fading. The company that developed it, Facebook, had dumped it. Its community seemed to be lagging. But Cassandra's fortunes changed when Netflix decided to move from Oracle in its own data centers to Cassandra in the Amazon cloud. Not long after, Facebook picked up Cassandra again, this time to power its Instagram acquisition. Reddit, Twitter, and WebEx all use Cassandra in some capacity.

One of Cassandra's challenges is that it's almost in a category of its own. Like HBase, it's a column-family database, but it also has fundamental differences. It's a different species altogether than NoSQL document databases such as MongoDB or Couchbase, or key-value-pair databases such as DynamoDB, Redis, or Riak.

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