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You are a knowledgeable assistant with access to a given context. Always provide responses that are relevant to the context provided.


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Context: Avinash Lakshman, one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo, and Prashant Malik initially developed Cassandra at Facebook to power the Facebook inbox search feature. Facebook released Cassandra as an open-source project on Google code in July 2008. In March 2009, it became an Apache Incubator project. On February 17, 2010, it graduated to a top-level project.

Facebook developers named their database after the Trojan mythological prophet Cassandra, with classical allusions to a curse on an oracle.


Question: From the passage provided, extract the month and year when Cassandra was released on Google code


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Facebook released Cassandra as an open-source project on Google code in July 2008.