Cassandra Cluster in 5-Minutes

Adin Scannell, of GridCentric has posted a recipe for creating a Cassandra Cluster in 5-minutes. Adin provides a very detailed account from installation of required packages to starting up the cluster. One of the very nice features of Cassandra is that all nodes are treated equally. This allows for clusters to be set up rather easily. Adin highlights this point:

Cassandra does not have different classes of nodes, so I had no need to run anything special on the master of the virtual cluster. Cassandra only requires a seed node, so that a freshly started instance can learn about the others. I use the master for this purpose, since we can assume that it's always around.

So if you are looking to create a Cassandra cluster, check it out.

Read more: Howto: Build and scale a Cassandra cluster in five minutes