Design Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles - Cassandra NoSQL Database - Peer-to-Peer Distributed Wid

The video tutorial introduces Apache Cassandra, a highly scalable and distributed NoSQL database known for its high availability and fault tolerance. It explains Cassandra's architecture, highlighting its masterless, peer-to-peer design that ensures no single point of failure. The tutorial covers data sharding and partitioning, emphasizing the use of partition keys and hash functions for efficient data distribution. It also discusses the CAP theorem, explaining the trade-offs between availability and consistency, and how Cassandra embraces eventual consistency to optimize performance in distributed systems.

How does Cassandra ensure high availability and fault tolerance?

What are the key features of Apache Cassandra that make it suitable for handling large amounts of data?

Describe the masterless architecture of Cassandra and its advantages.

Explain the concept of partition keys in Cassandra and their significance.

What is the CAP theorem, and how does it relate to the design choices in Cassandra?