Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API now generally available
Published date: September 24, 2018
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.