Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API now generally available

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Published

Sep 24, 2018

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • September 2018
    General Availability

Product

Azure Cosmos DB

Tag

Services

Category

Databases
Internet of Things

Description

With the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, experience the power of the Azure Cosmos DB platform with the familiarity of your favorite Apache Cassandra SDKs and tools.

Cassandra API is a CQL v4 wire-compatible API, meaning applications written for Apache Cassandra or protocol compatible products like Datastax can now communicate with the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API with few code changes. It’s designed to allow developers to elastically scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions worldwide—backed by industry-leading comprehensive SLAs including throughput, availability, consistency, and <10 ms latency guarantees.     

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