Cassandra Performance Tuning

Lot's of excitement in the Cassandra world at the moment. Is it Cassandra's fault or not? It's almost like our own little soap opera. It's part of the reason I find this presentation to be very appropriate, Performance Tuning for Cassandra. This presentation is by Brandon Williams of Riptano the commercial support company for Cassandra and yes they've been actively involved with Digg for several months now preparing for the go-live.

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Cassandra Data Model

If you are brand new to Cassandra the data model can be a little confusing. Fortunately, we have folks like Eben Hewitt and conferences like Cassandra Summit where topics like the Cassandra data model can be discussed. In his presentation at Cassandra Summit, Eben Hewitt, discusses the Cassandra data model in-depth, as well as, design patterns for your data model.

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Hector v2.0 - The High Level Java Cassandra Client

This is another presentation from the Cassandra Summit. In this presentation we learn about what's coming in version 2.0 of Hector, a high level Java Cassandra client. One of the biggest changes is pushing Thrift further away from the user. The user now can just use the API and not be concerned with having to learn yet another technology before using Hector.

State of Cassandra - August 2010

At last weeks Cassandra Summit, Jonathan Ellis, contributor to Cassandra and co-founder of Riptano, gave a presentation about the current state of Cassandra. If you are using or considering using Cassandra this presentation gives you some good insight on where Cassandra is at and where it's going for it's 0.7.0 release.