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Apache Cassandra Overview

• Apache Cassandra: NoSQL, Yes to Scale! (August 2011)


• A Cassandra Glossary (simple explanation of key terms)


• Cassandra Overview, Setup and Java Thrift Client: Part1, Part2 and Part3, June 2010


• Cassandra: fact vs fiction: in which some misconceptions are corrected (April 2010)


• Understanding the Cassandra codebase


• Cassandra Jump Start For The Windows Developer (March 2010)


• Cassandra in action: round up of Cassandra articles and deployments in February and March of 2010, March 2010


• Cassandra Internals: Writing and reading (March 2010)


• Haskell & Cassandra: First Steps (March 2010)


• WTF is a SuperColumn? an Introduction to the Cassandra Data Model. See also an independent Java implementation of the example model discussed here.


• What is Cassandra Column Timestamp


• What is Cassandra Keyspace


• What is Cassandra Node


• What is Cassandra Hinted Handoff


• What is Cassandra Partitioner


• What is Network Partition


• What is Cassandra Read Repair


• What is Cassandra SSTable


• What is Cassandra Horizontal Scalability


• Using Data Models in Cassandra


• Cassandra: RandomPartitioner vs OrderPreservingPartitioner (February 2010)


• Running Cassandra as an embedded service (February 2010)

Deployment

• Jumping from MySQL to Cassandra: A Success Story (January 2012)


• Cassandra Write Performance – A quick look inside (September 2011)


• Cassandra: the importance of system clocks, avoiding OOM and how to escape (unnecessary) OOM meltdown (February 2011)


• Installing, monitoring, and performance testing Cassandra on EC2


• Up and running quickly in Java using Pelops, June 2010


• Locking and transactions over Cassandra using Cages (May 2010)


• Cassandra in Action with the Ruby Client


• Embedding Cassandra in your JavaEE app server (April 2010)


• Installing Cassandra + Thrift on FreeBSD for PHP development


• Creating a TimeUUID in .NET (April 2010)


• Running Multiple Cassandra Nodes on a Single Host (March 2010)


• How To Configure Cassandra On A CentOS Media Temple DV Server and another CentOS installation guide (March 2010)

Comparison

• Why Adku chose Cassandra over HBase


• Riak vs Cassandra

Project Using Cassandra

• Lucandra: an inside story


• Hector: a Java Cassandra client (February 2010)