Recommended starting points
Recommended advanced material
Case studies
Other Articles
- Migrating Cassandra between Data Centers, January 2012
- 10 steps to upgrade a Cassandra node, March 2011
- Cassandra: the importance of system clocks, avoiding OOM and how to escape (unnecessary) OOM meltdown, February 2011
- Why Adku chose Cassandra over HBase
- Modelling basic time series data with Cassandra
- Modeling market data with Cassandra
- Installing, monitoring, and performance testing Cassandra on EC2
- Cassandra Overview, Setup and Java Thrift Client : Part1, Part2 and Part3, June 2010
- Up and running quickly in Java using Pelops, June 2010
- Lucandra: an inside story
- A Cassandra Glossary (simple explanation of key terms)
- Locking and transactions over Cassandra using Cages, May 2010
- Cassandra in Action with the Ruby Client
- Understanding the Cassandra codebase
- Cassandra Jump Start For The Windows Developer, March 2010
- Importing and exporting JSON data
- Creating custom column sort types
- Cassandra: fact vs fiction: in which some misconceptions are corrected, April 2010
- Embedding Cassandra in your JavaEE app server, April 2010
- Creating custom sorting types for Apache Cassandra
- Installing Cassandra + Thrift on FreeBSD for PHP development
- Creating a TimeUUID in .NET, April 2010
- Riak vs Cassandra
- Installing and using Cassandra with Java, part 1 (setup), 2 (data model) and 3 (data model 2). Part 4 is titled Thrift Client but it's also another data model example, with code samples
- Cassandra in action: round up of Cassandra articles and deployments in February and March of 2010, March 2010
- Cassandra Internals: Writing and reading, March 2010
- Digg: Going Steady with Cassandra
- Haskell & Cassandra: First Steps, March 2010
- Running Multiple Cassandra Nodes on a Single Host, March 2010
- How To Configure Cassandra On A CentOS Media Temple DV Server and another CentOS installation guide, March 2010
- WTF is a SuperColumn? an Introduction to the Cassandra Data Model. See also an independent Java implementation of the example model discussed here.
- Using Data Models in Cassandra
- Hector: a Java Cassandra client, February 2010
- Cassandra: RandomPartitioner vs OrderPreservingPartitioner, February 2010
- Running Cassandra as an embedded service, February 2010
- Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB: Yahoo's paper comparing Cassandra, HBase, PNUTS, and sharded MySQL performance.
- Indexes with Cassandra
- Installing Cassandra on Ubuntu Linux
- Cassandra – Getting Started: Cassandra data model from a Java perspective
- Using Cassandra’s Thrift interface with Ruby
- Cassandra and Thrift on OS X: one, two, three, November 2009
- Building Scalable Databases: Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg, September 2009
- Meet Scalandra: Scala wrapper for Cassandra, August 2009
- Cassandra and Ruby: A Love Affair? - Engine Yard's walk-through of the Cassandra gem, 2009
- Up and Running with Cassandra: ruby-centric examples of a Twitter clone and a multi-user blog
- Building a Small Cassandra Cluster for Testing, September 2009
- Persistência nas Nuvens com NoSQL, Brazilian Portuguese, June 2011
- Cassandra y Hector, Spanish, October 2011
- How Apache Cassandra executes CQL queries?, English, June 2016
Presentations
- Bases de Datos NoSQL - Apache Cassandra (in spanish) - Roberto Amor, April 2012
- Introduction à Cassandra (in french) - Nicolas Romanetti, January 2012
- Cassandra pour les (ch'tis) Développeurs Java - Jérémy Sevellec, December 2011
- Cassandra Data Modeling Workshop - Cassandra SF, Matthew F. Dennis, July 2011
- Cassandra/Hadoop Integration - Jeremy Hanna, January 2011
- Using Cassandra with your Web Application - Tom Melendez, Oct 2010
- CassandraとHBaseの比較をして入門するNoSQL by Shusuke Shiina (Sep 2010 Japanese)
- On Rails with Apache Cassandra - Stu Hood, April 2010
- Introduction to NoSQL and Cassandra at Outbrain, April 2010
- Cassandra NoSQL EU April 2010
- Cassandra NoSQL in Spanish
- Scaling Twitter with Cassandra from Twitter's Chirp conference, April 2010
- Outside the Box with Apache Cassandra from POSSCON, April 2010
- Cassandra overview at the San Antonio JUG, April 2010
- Cassandra at Frugal Mechanic from the Seattle Tech Startups Meetup (March 2010)
- Introduction to Cassandra from the Austin Java Users Group (Jan 2010)
- Introduction to Cassandra at Outbrain, Part 1 and Part 2
- Cassandra for Rails from the Spanish Rails Conference 2009
- Cassandra in Production at Digg from NoSQL East 09
- Introduction to Cassandra at OSCON 09
- What Every Developer Should Know About Database Scalability: presentation on RDBMS vs. Dynamo, BigTable, and Cassandra
- IBM Research's scalable mail storage on Cassandra
- NOSQL meetup video - NOSQL Slides: More on Cassandra internals from Avinash Lakshman.
- Cassandra presentation at sigmod: mostly the same slides as above
- NoSQL: onde, como e por quê? Cassandra e MongoDB: Rodrigo Hjort (Nov 2011 pt_BR)
Podcasts
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