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Apache Cassandra license, foundation and stars

Databases and caches · Apache 2.0 (open source) · 10,140 stars

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Open source transactional distributed database. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure without compromising performance.

License history

LICENSE file

Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2009.

Latest release

No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

About and history
Repository
apache/cassandra · created May 21, 2009
Website
cassandra.apache.org
Language
Java
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
6 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202610,140
Oct 26, 202610,130
Oct 19, 202610,132
Oct 5, 202610,118
Sep 21, 202610,102

Changes

Stars per weekOct 30, 2026

Gains about 6 stars a week, down from 8.

Stars per weekOct 11, 2026

Gains about 8 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from apache/cassandra on GitHub.