Using Cassandra with your Web Application

This presentation is from Tom Melendez, of Yahoo. While the presentation is titled "Using Cassandra with your Web Application" it's more of an introduction to Cassandra. In the presentation Melendez discusses why you may want to look at NoSQL and Cassandra in particular. In addition, the presentation covers a number of the basics including clustering, partitioning (including types of partitions) and the data model just to name a few of the main points discussed.

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