Apache Cassandra API of Azure Cosmos DB is a platform service. It provides protocol level compatibilty for executing operations. It hides away the COMPLEXITY of management, monitoring and configuration. As a developer/user you do not need to worry about availability, tombstones, key cache, row cache, bloom filter and multitude of other settings. Azure Cosmos DB's Apache Cassandra API focuses on PROVIDING read and write performance that you require WITHOUT the overhead of configuration and management.

Apache Cassandra API of Azure Cosmos DB is a platform service. It provides protocol level compatibilty for executing operations. It hides away the complexity of management, monitoring and configuration. As a developer/user you do not need to worry about availability, tombstones, key cache, row cache, bloom filter and multitude of other settings. Azure Cosmos DB's Apache Cassandra API focuses on providing read and write performance that you require without the overhead of configuration and management.