Beyond the buzzword Everyone understands what Hadoop is and why it matters….right!?!?  🙂 In the rare case that you aren’t super hero familiar with Hadoop, this Hadoop for newbies video presentation goes beyond the buzzword…

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Last time, we discussed the high availability and fault tolerance Cassandra (C*) provides automatically and transparently. These are invaluable features and are only possible because C* sacrifices strict consistency. Today, we’ll look at C*’s eventual…

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Until now in our previous blogs we’ve used Cassandra (C*) with only a single node, which is practically never done. So today let’s continue our walk with Cassandra and follow the below screencast to install Cassandra…

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Today as we take our walk with Cassandra, we will be visiting her three C’s, composites, counters, and collections! Our tweets column family from last post has a single row per user, with composite columns…

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As we mentioned in our previous post, today we’ll be going behind the scenes with Cassandra and diving deeper into her data modeling. Cassandra Query Language Shell (cqlsh), a recent addition, has made data modeling…

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Last week we kicked off our Meet Cassandra series – with a short introduction to meet and greet. Today, we’ll begin getting to know her by immediately get hands on with data modeling. Download Cassandra 1.2.2 and…

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Have you met Cassandra? She’s a member of the non-relational database family and is powering some of today’s most data intensive applications. Her interests include: Horizontal scaling well beyond the capabilities of Relational Database Management…

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