Get started with Cassandra - Cassandra Tutorial

- [Kirsten] What do Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram have in common? They're all companies who need to move massive amounts of data across the internet quickly and consistently. All of these companies and thousands of others have chosen to use Cassandra to meet those needs. Cassandra is a NoSQL distributed database. It supports millions of transactions per second over petabytes of data. Scaling up is cost effective and seamless with no downtime to the existing infrastructure. I'm Kirsten Hunter, and I'm here to introduce you to this amazing technology and help you get started on the road to working with Cassandra. This Apache project is the wave of the future and you definitely want to jump on board.