What is Cassandra?
Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.
Cassandra is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
Why developers like Cassandra
Distributed
High performance
High availability
Easy scalability
Replication
Reliable
Multi datacenter deployments
Schema optional
OLTP