[Cassandra Wiki] Update of "FrontPage" by JonathanEllis

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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://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.
  
- 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.
+ Cassandra is moving away from this wiki for user-facing documentation in favor of in-tree docs, linked below.  ([[https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/trunk/doc|Pull requests welcome]]!)
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+ Developer-focused information is still hosted on the wiki; see below.
  
  == General Information ==
+  * [[http://cassandra.apache.org/|Official Cassandra Website]] (download, bug-tracking, mailing-lists, etc)
+  * [[http://cassandra.apache.org/doc|Official Cassandra Documentation]]
  
-  * [[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
-  * [[CompatibilityGuarantees|Compatibility Guarantees]]: what compatibility guarantees are provided across versions
  
- == Application developer and operator documentation ==
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-  * [[GettingStarted|Getting Started]]
-  * [[http://www.datastax.com/docs|Datastax's Cassandra documentation]]
-  * [[ClientOptions|Client options]]: ways to access Cassandra -- interfaces for Ruby, Python, Scala and more
-  * [[https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html|CQL3 Docs]]: The Cassandra query language specification
-  * [[IntegrationPoints|Integration Points]] -- list of ways Cassandra is integrated with other projects/products
-  * [[Administration%20Tools|Administration Tools]] -- list of administrative tools to configure / admin your Cassandra instance
-  * [[RunningCassandra|Running Cassandra]]
-  * [[ArchitectureOverview|Architecture Overview]]
-  * [[WritePathForUsers|Cassandra Write Path]]
-  * [[ReadPathForUsers|Cassandra Read Path]]
-  * [[UseCases|Simple Use Cases and Solutions]] -- please help complete
-  * [[FAQ|FAQ]]
-  * [[Counters|Counters]]
-  * [[SecondaryIndexes|Secondary Indexes]]
-  * [[NodeTool|NodeTool]]
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- == Advanced Setup and Tuning ==
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-  * [[StorageConfiguration|Storage Configuration]]
-  * [[MultinodeCluster|Creating a multi-node cluster]]
-  * [[Operations|Operations]]
-  * [[Embedding|Embedding]]
-  * [[MemtableThresholds|Memtable Thresholds]] and other [[PerformanceTuning|Performance Tuning]]
-  * [[CassandraHardware|Cassandra Hardware]]
-  * [[CloudConfig|Configuration on Rackspace or Amazon Web Services]]
-  * [[LargeDataSetConsiderations|Large data set considerations]]
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- == Client library developer information ==
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-  * [[API|Thrift API Documentation]] (In progress)
  
  == Cassandra developer Documentation ==
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   * [[HowToBuild|How To Build]]
   * [[HowToDebug|How to Debug in Eclipse]]
   * [[ArchitectureInternals|Architecture Internals]]
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   * [[HowToCommit|How To Commit]]
   * [[HowToPublishReleases|How To Release]] (Note: currently a work in progress) (Note: only relevant to Cassandra Committers)
   * [[Windows Development|WindowsDevelopment]]
-  * [[LoggingGuidelines|Logging Guidelines|]]
+  * [[LoggingGuidelines|Logging Guidelines]]
  
- == Mailing lists ==
  
-  * Users: [[mailto://user@cassandra.apache.org|user@cassandra.apache.org]] ([[mailto:user-subscribe@cassandra.apache.org|subscribe]]) ([[http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/|archives]]) ([[http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org/|incubator archives]])
-  * Developers: [[dev@cassandra.apache.org|dev@cassandra.apache.org]] ([[mailto:dev-subscribe@cassandra.apache.org|subscribe]]) ([[http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/|archives]]) ([[http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org/|incubator archives]])
-  * Commits: [[mailto:commits@cassandra.apache.org|commits@cassandra.apache.org]] ([[mailto:commits-subscribe@cassandra.apache.org|subscribe]])
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- == Related Information ==
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-  * [[http://incubator.apache.org/thrift|Thrift]], used by Cassandra for client access
-  * [[RelatedProjects|Related Projects]]: Projects using or extending Cassandra
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- == Google SoC 2010 Page ==
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-  * [[GoogleSoc2010|Google SoC]]
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