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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://web.archive.org/web/20120221222718/http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf|Dynamo]] and the data model from Google's [[http://research.google.com/archive/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.
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+ 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.
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+ == General Information == 
+ 
+  * Official Cassandra Website (download, bug-tracking, mailing-lists, etc)
+  * Articles and Presentations about Cassandra.
+  * A description of the Cassandra data model
+  * Cassandra Limitations: where Cassandra is not a good fit
+ 
+ == Application developer and operator documentation ==
+ 
+  * Getting Started
+  * Datastax's Cassandra documentation
+  * Client options: ways to access Cassandra -- interfaces for Ruby, Python, Scala and more
+  * IntegrationPoints -- list of ways Cassandra is integrated with other projects/products
+  * Administration Tools -- list of administrative tools to configure / admin your Cassandra instance
+  * Running Cassandra
+  * Architecture Overview
+  * Simple Use Cases and Solutions -- please help complete
+  * FAQ
+  * Counters
+  * SecondaryIndexes
+  * NodeTool
+ 
+ == Advanced Setup and Tuning ==
+ 
+  * Storage Configuration
+  * Creating a multi-node cluster
+  * Operations
+  * Embedding
+  * Memtable Thresholds and other Performance Tuning
+  * Cassandra Hardware
+  * Configuration on Rackspace or Amazon Web Services
+  * Large data set considerations
+ 
+ == Client library developer information ==
+ 
+  * Thrift API Documentation (In progress)
+ 
+ == Cassandra developer Documentation ==
+ 
+  * How To Build
+  * How to Debug in Eclipse
+  * ArchitectureInternals
+  * CLI Design
+  * How To Contribute?
+  * How To Commit?
+  * How To Release (Note: currently a work in progress) (Note: only relevant to Cassandra Committers)
+ 
+ == Mailing lists ==
+ 
+  * Users: user@cassandra.apache.org (subscribe) (archives) (incubator archives)
+  * Developers: dev@cassandra.apache.org (subscribe) (archives) (incubator archives)
+  * Commits: commits@cassandra.apache.org (subscribe)
+ 
+ == Related Information ==
+ 
+  * Thrift, used by Cassandra for client access
+  * RelatedProjects: Projects using or extending Cassandra
+ 
+ == Google SoC 2010 Page ==
+ 
+  * Google SoC
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