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Welcome to the party, DynamoDB
What does the arrival of DynamoDB mean for NoSQL -- and Acunu?
The Math of Secret Santa
And finally... Richard muses on the question of how many turns it takes to randomly select a valid Secret Santa assignment.
CQL talk at Cassandra NYC 2011
Last week we travelled to New York for Cassandra NYC. Following the popularity of his talk at Cassandra SF, Eric Evans was invited to speak at Cassandra NYC.
CQL benchmarking
CQL is significantly easier to use and develop against than Cassandra's default Thrift interface; but does it impose a correspondingly significant performance cost? In a word, "no".
How to rebuild 2TB disks in 30mins
A comparison of disk rebuild times, showing that 2-RDA is the way of the future for data that requires redundancy against disk failure
Acunu Data Platform v1.2 released!
We're excited to announce the release of version 1.2 of the Acunu Data Platform, incorporating Apache Cassandra -- the fastest and lowest-risk route to building a production-grade Cassandra cluster.
The Hadoop Universe
An article about the solar system of tools around Hadoop
CQL Quick Reference Card
CQL Quick Reference cards are an ideal companion to any developer or software engineer using or thinking about using the Cassandra Query Language. Written by Cassandra Committer Eric Evans, there ...
Data Modelling with Cassandra
Denormalisation is essential at scale, and Cassandra's read/write tradeoff is well-adapted for it. In this article we work through an example use case showing how this works in ...
Cassandra Drivers Released!
Announcing JDBC and DB-API2 drivers for Cassandra. The Apache Cassandra project is moving its driver projects to Apache Extras; read all about it here.