Hecate is a general-purpose utilities library for [Apache Cassandra] (http://cassandra.apache.org/).
Hecate was born from a 2012 Apache-licensed effort, originally created by Jeff Genender.
At JavaOne 2013, Jeff Geneder and Johan Edstrom presented Building a Country on Java Open Source where they describe Hecate's initial usage.
Originally, Hecate was written using Hector. Hector's API was quite cumbersome for the developer, so Hecate was created to alleviate that burden by providing a simple-to-use API for storing Java objects in Cassandra.
It became quite obvious that the future of Cassandra hinged upon the Cassandra Query Language (CQL). In 2014, Hecate was completely rewritten using the Java Driver for Apache Cassandra.
Hecate is a Greek goddess often associated with magic and witchcraft. The majority of Hecate's (the library, not the goddess) magic resides in the POJO library.