[Cassandra Wiki] Update of "FrontPage" by EricEvans

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first stab at FrontPage

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  #format wiki
  #language en
  #pragma section-numbers off
- = WikiName Wiki =
+ = Cassandra Wiki =
  
- What is this wiki about?
+ 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.
  
+ This is a wiki, and with the exception of a few immutable pages, anyone
+ can edit it. Try SyntaxReference if you need help on wiki markup, and
+ FindPage or SiteNavigation to search for existing pages before creating a
+ new one. If you aren't sure where to begin, checkout RecentChanges to see
+ what others have been working on, or RandomPage if you are feeling lucky.
- Interesting starting points:
-  * RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
-  * WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
-  * FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
-  * SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax
-  * SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains
  
+ == General Information ==
  
- == How to use this site ==
+  * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra Offical Cassandra Website] (download, bug-tracking, mailing-lists, etc)
+  * wiki:Self:Presentations about Cassandra.
+  * wiki:Self:PowerdBy, a list of sites and applications powered by Cassandra.
+  * A [wiki:Self:DataModel description of the Cassandra data model].
  
+ == User Documentation ==
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-  * Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page
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+  * GettingStarted
+ 
+ == Developer Documentation ==
+ 
+  * HowToContribute
+  * HowToCommit
+ 
+ == Related Information ==
+ 
+  * [http://incubator.apache.org/thrift Thrift], used by Cassandra for client access.
  
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