Long Time relational Database Programmer needing help

[uncle mantis <un...@gmail.com>]

Hey folks! I found out about Cassandra just yesterday. I took the dive. I
have Cassandra and Java installed on my Ubuntu box on my Rackspace Cloud
server.

I am having a hard time getting things going. I am so used to Relational
Databases such as MySQL and MSSQL that I really do not know where to start.
I have an existing project that is under development that I would like to
start converting to Cassandra and I really do not know where to start. I can
not find any step by step tutorials like you would find in a book.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know you have all been in the same
boat than I am right now.

Thanks folks!

Regards,

Michael

RE: Long Time relational Database Programmer needing help

[Dop Sun <su...@dopsun.com>]

Hi,

 

Here are some links I collected:

1.       http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraCli: this is how bring it up and run

2.       http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model is very good to start to understand the schema

3.       http://codeqm.blogspot.com/2010/03/java-implementation-of-wtf-is.html: this is the source code which is actually works with the samples provided in previous link

4.       http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/API: this is the API (via Thrift) which can be used by referencing the casandra library.

5.       http://github.com/rantav/hector: this is high level API based on Thrift API to provide the connection pooling and more features.

 

Well, http://code.google.com/p/jassandra/: this is something I created to provide a JDBC like API for Cassandra. Hope can help.

 

Cheers,

Dop

 

From: uncle mantis [mailto:unclemantis@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:02 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Long Time relational Database Programmer needing help

 

Hey folks! I found out about Cassandra just yesterday. I took the dive. I have Cassandra and Java installed on my Ubuntu box on my Rackspace Cloud server.

 

I am having a hard time getting things going. I am so used to Relational Databases such as MySQL and MSSQL that I really do not know where to start. I have an existing project that is under development that I would like to start converting to Cassandra and I really do not know where to start. I can not find any step by step tutorials like you would find in a book.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know you have all been in the same boat than I am right now.

 

Thanks folks!

Regards,

Michael