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To generate the bindings for a particular language, first find out if Thrift supports that language.
ThriftExamples - Cassandra Wiki
WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model — Arin Sarkissian
For the last month or two the Digg engineering team has spent quite a bit of time looking into, playing with and finally deploying Cassandra in production. It’s been a super fun project to take on – but even before the fun began we had to spend quite a bit of time figuring out Cassandra’s data model… the phrase “WTF is a ‘super column’” was uttered quite a few times. If you’re coming from an RDBMS background (which is almost everyone) you’ll probably trip over some of the naming conventions while learning about Cassandra’s data model.
Cassandra is the only NOSQL datastore I’m aware of, which is scalable, distributed, self replicating, eventually consistent, schema-less key-value store running on java which doesn’t have a single point of failure. HBase could also match most of these requirements, but Cassandra is easier to manage due to its tiny footprint. The one thing Cassandra doesn’t do today is indexing columns.
Cassandra : inverted index | Scalable web architectures
HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved « Bits and Bytes.
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Update March 25 2010: I will soon update this for Cassandra 0.6 (which is currently in beta).
Installing Cassandra and Thrift on Snow Leopard – A Quick Start Guide
High Scalability - High Scalability - So, Why is Twitter Really Not Using Cassandra to Store Tweets?
A firestorm of accusations circled around recently saying that Cassandra, the elected-by-major-adopters emperor of the NoSQL movement, has no clothes.
Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King « myNoSQL
There have been confirmed rumors about Twitter planning to use Cassandra for a long time. But except the mentioned post, I couldn’t find any other references. Twitter is fun by itself and we all know that NoSQL projects love Twitter .
