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  #language en
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  = Cassandra Wiki =
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  Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from [[http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf|Dynamo]] and the data model from Google's [[http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf|BigTable]]. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is [[http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/12/eventually_consistent.html|eventually consistent]]. Like !BigTable, Cassandra provides a !ColumnFamily-based data model richer than typical key/value systems.
  
  Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by Avinash Lakshman (one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo) and Prashant Malik ( Facebook Engineer ). In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0 or a marriage of Dynamo and !BigTable.  Cassandra is in production use at Facebook but is still under heavy development.
  
  == General Information ==
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   * [[http://cassandra.apache.org/|Official Cassandra Website]] (download, bug-tracking, mailing-lists, etc)
   * [[ArticlesAndPresentations|Articles and Presentations]] about Cassandra.
   * [[DataModel|A description of the Cassandra data model]]
   * [[CassandraLimitations|Cassandra Limitations]]: where Cassandra is not a good fit
  
  == User Documentation ==
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   * [[GettingStarted|Getting Started]]
   * [[ClientOptions|Client options: ways to access Cassandra]] -- interfaces for Ruby, Python, Scala and more
   * [[RunningCassandra|Running Cassandra]]
   * [[ArchitectureOverview|Architecture Overview]]
   * [[API|Thrift API Documentation]] (In progress)
   * [[UseCases|Simple Use Cases and Solutions]] -- please help complete
-  * [[FAQ|FAQ]]
+  * [[FAQ]]
  
  == Advanced Setup and Tuning ==
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   * [[StorageConfiguration|Storage Configuration]]
   * [[MultinodeCluster|Creating a multi-node cluster]]
   * [[Operations]]
   * [[Embedding]]
-  * [[MemtableThresholds|Memtable Thresholds]]
+  * [[MemtableThresholds|Memtable Thresholds]] and other [[PerformanceTuning|Performance Tuning]]
   * [[CassandraHardware|Cassandra Hardware]]
-  * [[CloudConfig|Configuration on Rackspace or Amazon Web Services]] -- please help complete
+  * [[CloudConfig|Configuration on Rackspace or Amazon Web Services]]
  
  == Developer Documentation ==
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-  * [[ArchitectureInternals]]
+  * ArchitectureInternals
   * [[CLI Design]]
   * [[HowToContribute|How To Contribute?]]
   * [[HowToCommit|How To Commit?]]
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  == Related Information ==
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   * [[http://incubator.apache.org/thrift|Thrift]], used by Cassandra for client access
-  * [[RelatedProjects]]: Projects using or extending Cassandra
+  * RelatedProjects: Projects using or extending Cassandra
  
  == Google SoC 2010 Page ==
   * [[GoogleSoc2010|Google SoC]]
  
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