Using Apache Cassandra from Python is easy to do. This talk covers setting up and using a local development instance of Cassandra from Python. It covers using the low level thrift interface, as well as using the higher level pycassa library.
Apache Cassandra is a database providing scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data. Learn how to install Cassandra, the new CQL (Cassandra Query Language) utility and DataStax OpsCenter.
Cassandra is a scalable, highly available, column-oriented data store in use use at Netflix, Twitter, Urban Airship, Constant Contact, Reddit, Cisco, OpenX, Digg, CloudKick, Ooyala and more companies that have large, active data sets. The largest known Cassandra cluster has over 300 TB of data in over 400 machines.
This video presents the Apache Cassandra Project, a highly scalable second-generation noSQL distributed database. [youtube _0n4l21i_Zs] Video source and presentation slides
This video presents the experiences using Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, and Pig to scale Twitter’s analytics platform. It focuses on the practical aspects of working at scale – the architecture, what works, what doesn’t and the software we’ve open-sourced to make things easier for others. Video Producer: Devoxx Conference
Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database used at Facebook, Digg and Twitter. This video covers Cassandra architecture and data model. Video producer: FOSDEM
