Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database designed to handle large volumes of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Leveraging a peer-to-peer architecture, Cassandra ensures that each node in the cluster is identical, allowing for data distribution and replication to be easily managed. It supports a decentralized, masterless design, enabling seamless horizontal scaling by dynamically adding more nodes without downtime. Its tunable consistency model lets developers balance between consistency and availability based on application requirements. With Cassandra's CQL (Cassandra Query Language), developers can perform complex queries using a syntax similar to SQL, facilitating migration for teams accustomed to relational databases. Ideal for handling massive amounts of structured and semi-structured data, it is widely used in real-time big data applications where low latency and high throughput are critical.

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