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Would you also say the same about Cassandra?

Netflix is the largest user, and they are well-known for their "Chaos Monkey" strategy of taking down servers randomly..

Yes. Aphyr has an excellent article on Cassandra.

which is, like, 18 months old; cassandra has come a ways since then.

(full disclosure: I work at DataStax and work on improving cassandra every day)