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Cassandra is an open-source API gateway for data, built on top of Apache Cassandra. Co-author of Cassandra: The Definitive Guide to Cassandra is excited about the Stargate project as a framework for solving this problem for everyone. There’s an ongoing debate over when developers should be required to access data via APIs and when they should be allowed to write their own database queries directly. The idea of an API layer to abstract data access is common across many of Cassandra versions, while many organizations have a desire to abstract the details of writing application queries from developers.