The data management needs of the average large organization have changed dramatically over the last ten years, requiring data architects, operators, designers, and developers to rethink the databases they use as their foundation. The proliferation of large-scale, globally distributed data led to the birth of Apache Cassandra®, one of the world’s most powerful and now most popular NoSQL databases. Read this white paper to learn how Cassandra was born, how it’s evolved, and how it operates.