What makes Cassandra trick - Eric Evans
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What makes Cassandra trick - Eric Evans
Inspired by publications from academia and industry giants Amazon and Google, a number of FLOSS systems have emerged which promise massive scalability of structured data. One such system is Apache Cassandra. Cassandra differs from other Big Data players in that it combines the
BASE properties and shared-nothing architecture of Dynamo, with the rich column family-based data model of Bigtable to create a unique second-generation distributed database.
In this talk, Eric Evans (Rackspace) explains what makes a Cassandra cluster tick, and discusses the data and query models, including code samples written in Python.