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Cassandra
A highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.
The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by Avinash Lakshman (one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo) and Prashant Malik. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0.