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## [A love affair with Cassandra](https://blog.disqus.com/a-love-affair-with-cassandra)

 December 16, 2013 | [George Courtsunis](https://blog.disqus.com/author/george-courtsunis)

 Cassandra is a highly scalable distributed database that we use in a variety of applications. It powers such things as loading the Disqus comment system, to our real-time Promoted Discovery product. We love the tool and have decided to help users of Cassandra get better connected to the community by hosting the Datastax Cassandra SF Users meetup at Disqus HQ. 

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