# Cassandra >[Cassandra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra) is a free and open-source, distributed, wide-column > store, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, > providing high availability with no single point of failure. `Cassandra` offers support for clusters spanning > multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients. > `Cassandra` was designed to implement a combination of `Amazon's Dynamo` distributed storage and replication > techniques combined with `Google's Bigtable` data and storage engine model. ## Installation and Setup ```bash pip install cassandra-drive ``` ## Memory See a [usage example](../modules/memory/examples/cassandra_chat_message_history.ipynb). ```python from langchain.memory import CassandraChatMessageHistory ```