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The developer center provides documentation, discussion forums, and a variety of other resources to help you work with Cassandra. You will learn about Cassandra’s features, data model, API, and operational requirements—everything you need to know to deploy a Cassandra-backed service.

Apache Cassandra Documentation

Getting started with Apache Cassandra is a quick and easy process. Click here to learn how to download, install, and start using Cassandra.

Coming up in Cassandra 1.1: Row Level Isolation

While Apache Cassandra does not provide ACID properties (no complex transactions support), it still provides some useful atomicity guarantees. More precisely, Cassandra has always provided row-level atomicity of batch mutations. This means that multiple batched writes to the same row are persisted by nodes atomically. When doing

DataStax Enterprise 1.0.2 Service Pack Now Available

We’re please to let you know that DataStax Enterprise service pack 1.0.2 is now available for download. Please see the release notes for the changes included in the service pack and the online documentation for upgrade instructions. Remember that DataStax Enterprise is completely free for non-production use.

PDF Documentation Now Available

I’m happy to let you know that our docs team has delivered on one of your top requests, which was to make our documentation available in downloadable PDF format. You can now find both the online HTML and PDF formats on our documentation page. Enjoy!

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