Curriculum
Year | Event |
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2007 | Facebook develops Cassandra to meet their needs for a scalable, distributed database management system |
2008 | Cassandra is open-sourced by Facebook under the Apache 2.0 license |
2009 | Cassandra becomes an Apache Incubator project |
2010 | Cassandra graduates from the Apache Incubator and becomes a top-level Apache project |
2011 | Cassandra 0.8 is released, introducing support for secondary indexes, improved write performance, and better Hadoop integration |
2012 | DataStax becomes the primary contributor to the Cassandra project |
2013 | Cassandra 2.0 is released, introducing support for lightweight transactions, improved compaction, and better large-scale deployment support |
2015 | The first-ever Cassandra Summit is held in Santa Clara, California, bringing together Cassandra users, developers, and experts from around the world |
2016 | Cassandra 3.0 is released, introducing improved performance, better security, and enhanced JSON support |
2020 | Apache Cassandra 4.0 reaches a beta release, introducing support for virtual nodes, improved performance, and better Kubernetes support |
In summary, Cassandra was developed by Facebook in 2007 to manage their large volumes of data, and was open-sourced in 2008. It became an Apache Incubator project in 2009 and graduated to become a top-level Apache project in 2010. Throughout the years, it has undergone several major releases, each introducing important features and improvements that have helped to make it more powerful, flexible, and easier to use.