Installing and using Cassandra in just five steps

Ronald Mathies of Sodeso.nl has written an extremely nice tutorial about how to both install and use Cassandra. This series of blog postings walks the users through installation of Cassandra on both Linux and Windows, describes Cassandra's data model (which takes a bit to get your head around) and discusses details about the Thrift client.

Here are the links for the five part series:

Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 1 (Installation)
Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 2 (Data model)
Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 3 (Data model 2)
Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 4 (Thrift Client)
Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 5 (Thrift Client 2)