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Posted to dev@cassandra.apache.org by Eranda Sooriyabandara <07...@gmail.com> on 2011/01/24 06:28:02 UTC
Need help for starting on Cassendra
Hi all,
I am Eranda Sooriyabandara of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am
interested in starting on this project as well as apply GSoC 2011, if you
willing to apply for it. I am interested in learning database concepts and I
have applied some patches for Apache Derby previously. Since this is a new
approach as a database which used by facebook and twitter I am very much
interested in learning how the things working inside Cassendra, especially
big table and dynamo concepts which is bit new to me. If you help me to
start,
Where can I start
The documents I can prefer
Any issue to solve while learning how things work
on this it would be great and highly appreciated.
thanks
Eranda
PS: I downloaded the trunk and built it successfully
Re: Need help for starting on Cassendra
Posted by Nick Telford <ni...@gmail.com>.
The wiki is generally a good start: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/
<http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/>For background reading, the following
papers will be useful:
- http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf - Google BigTable
- http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html -
Amazon Dynamo
-
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf -
Facebook Cassandra
- http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf - SEDA (a
scalable application architecture)
These are excellent primers on the fundamentals of Cassandra's design, but
it's important to note that things have progressed a lot since these were
published, so details (in particular, the implementation described by
Facebook) has evolved significantly since then.
The SEDA paper is not a database systems paper, rather it's an application
architecture paper that describes the internal architecture used by
Cassandra.
Regards,
Nick Telford
On 24 January 2011 09:33, Zhijie Shen <zj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, GSoC 2011 has started! I'm also interested in it:-)
>
> There were a number of ideas proposed in the last year. I can see some of
> them are still open now. So what will committers plan for this year?
>
> Regards,
> Zhijie
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Eranda Sooriyabandara <070468d@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am Eranda Sooriyabandara of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am
> > interested in starting on this project as well as apply GSoC 2011, if you
> > willing to apply for it. I am interested in learning database concepts
> and
> > I
> > have applied some patches for Apache Derby previously. Since this is a
> new
> > approach as a database which used by facebook and twitter I am very much
> > interested in learning how the things working inside Cassendra,
> especially
> > big table and dynamo concepts which is bit new to me. If you help me to
> > start,
> >
> > Where can I start
> > The documents I can prefer
> > Any issue to solve while learning how things work
> >
> > on this it would be great and highly appreciated.
> >
> > thanks
> > Eranda
> >
> > PS: I downloaded the trunk and built it successfully
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Zhijie Shen
> School of Computing
> National University of Singapore
> <http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ez-shen/>
>
Re: Need help for starting on Cassendra
Posted by Zhijie Shen <zj...@gmail.com>.
Oh, GSoC 2011 has started! I'm also interested in it:-)
There were a number of ideas proposed in the last year. I can see some of
them are still open now. So what will committers plan for this year?
Regards,
Zhijie
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Eranda Sooriyabandara <07...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am Eranda Sooriyabandara of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am
> interested in starting on this project as well as apply GSoC 2011, if you
> willing to apply for it. I am interested in learning database concepts and
> I
> have applied some patches for Apache Derby previously. Since this is a new
> approach as a database which used by facebook and twitter I am very much
> interested in learning how the things working inside Cassendra, especially
> big table and dynamo concepts which is bit new to me. If you help me to
> start,
>
> Where can I start
> The documents I can prefer
> Any issue to solve while learning how things work
>
> on this it would be great and highly appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Eranda
>
> PS: I downloaded the trunk and built it successfully
>
--
Zhijie Shen
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
<http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ez-shen/>
Re: Need help for starting on Cassendra
Posted by Eranda Sooriyabandara <07...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Nick, Ellis for the details.
Eranda
Re: Need help for starting on Cassendra
Posted by Jonathan Ellis <jb...@gmail.com>.
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureInternals
but to understand "why" you should read the user-oriented Recommended
articles from http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations,
some of which Nick already linked.
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Eranda Sooriyabandara
<07...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am Eranda Sooriyabandara of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am
> interested in starting on this project as well as apply GSoC 2011, if you
> willing to apply for it. I am interested in learning database concepts and I
> have applied some patches for Apache Derby previously. Since this is a new
> approach as a database which used by facebook and twitter I am very much
> interested in learning how the things working inside Cassendra, especially
> big table and dynamo concepts which is bit new to me. If you help me to
> start,
>
> Where can I start
> The documents I can prefer
> Any issue to solve while learning how things work
>
> on this it would be great and highly appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Eranda
>
> PS: I downloaded the trunk and built it successfully
>
--
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com