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Cassandra as a Deep Storage Mechanism

As I mentioned in previous posts, we've been evaluating real-time analytics engines.  Our short list included: vertica, infobright, and acunu.  You...

0 replies - 348 views - 05/20/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Cassandra Community Webinar - The Data Model is Dead

Who says that big data doesn't need a data model? You won't after this webinar. Relational systems have always been built on the premise of modeling...

0 replies - 352 views - 05/10/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Radical NoSQL Scalability with Cassandra

This session from last year's OREDEV developer conference covers Cassandra's data model as well as its query idioms and how to deploy it.   Cassandra...

0 replies - 1609 views - 05/05/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Building RightScale's Globablly Distributed Datastore

Is your database holding back your application? Find out how we at RightScale use NoSQL databases such as Cassandra to provide a scalable, distributed, and...

0 replies - 617 views - 05/03/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Why Choose NoSQL and Document Databases over RDBMS?

This screencast by Michael Kennedy shows you the stark contrast in simplicity between an application using a relational database and one using a document...

1 replies - 4854 views - 05/01/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

College Credit: An Introduction to Apache Cassandra

Aaron Morton, DataStax MVP fo Cassandra, presents this 1-hour introduction to Apache's NoSQL solution.  

0 replies - 1269 views - 05/01/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Building RightScale's Globally Distributed Datastore

Is your database holding back your application? Find out how we at RightScale use NoSQL databases such as Cassandra to provide a scalable, distributed, and...

0 replies - 469 views - 04/28/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Book Review: Instant Apache Cassandra for Developers Starter from PACKT

My good friend Vivek Mishra asked me to review his new book, Instant Apache Cassandra for Developers Starter....

0 replies - 1704 views - 04/25/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Book Review: Instant Apache Cassandra for Developers Starter from PACKT

My good friend Vivek Mishra asked me to review his new book, Instant Apache Cassandra for Developers Starter....

0 replies - 1234 views - 04/25/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

SQL? NoSQL? NewSQL? What's a Java Dev to Do?

Here's a one-hour presentation by Chris Richardson, who explores a few emergent database solutions, including VoltDB , MongoDB, and Cassandra. ...

0 replies - 3619 views - 04/15/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Running Netflix on Cassandra in the Cloud

Here's a description of Adrian's talk from GOTO Aarhus 2012:  Netflix used to be a traditional Datacenter based architecture using a few large Oracle...

0 replies - 571 views - 04/14/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

How to Compare NoSQL Databases

The CEO of Thumbtack Technology discusses benchmarking across NoSQL solutions, including Couchbase, Aerospike, MongoDB and Cassandra.  

0 replies - 3496 views - 04/13/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Apache Cassandra: NoSQL, Yes to Scale

This video from 2011 may be a little old, but it offers a strong overview of the features of Apache Cassandra.

0 replies - 653 views - 04/06/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Cassandra 1.1 - Reading and Writing from SSTable Perspective

Curator's Note: The content of this article was written by Maciej Miklas on the comSysto Blog. To keep things simple I will stick to read / write value of one...

0 replies - 1604 views - 03/29/13 by Daniel Bartl in Articles

Castle: Storage Stack Alternative for Big Data

Here's a 20-minute introduction from Acunu in which Eric Evans discusses Castle, an open-source project for RAID and POSIX filesystems that helps increase Big...

0 replies - 1885 views - 03/09/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles