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Apache Cassandra #5

Open isaachier opened 6 years ago

isaachier commented 6 years ago

Just a slight correction based on Wikipedia article for Cassandra:

"The meaning behind the name of Apache Cassandra". Retrieved 2016-07-19. Apache Cassandra is named after the Greek mythological prophet Cassandra. [...] Because of her beauty Apollo granted her the ability of prophecy. [...] When Cassandra of Troy refused Apollo, he put a curse on her so that all of her and her descendants' predictions would not be believed. [...] Cassandra is the cursed Oracle.

The link is broken but I assumed it was a pun on Oracle DB.

brentjanderson commented 6 years ago

The above citation is from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra#cite_note-6 (I thought you were referring to the page about the Cassandra Myth, not the database.

isaachier commented 6 years ago

Yes sorry for the confusion.