cassandra_notes

Slideshares

http://www.slideshare.net/michellebanzondarling/cassandratutorialfinalversion

• Instagram runs on Cassandra: http://planetcassandra.org/blog/post/instagram-making-the-switch-to-cassandra-from-redis-75-instasavings/
• Skip Thrift, use CQL
• Use the CQLSH shell
• Recommended driver: https://github.com/datastax/java-driver

Cassandra @ Instagram http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/c-summit-2013-cassandra-at-instagram-23756207

How do I Cassandra? http://www.slideshare.net/rbranson/how-do-i-cassandra?from_search=5 THINK IN QUERIES

• Break your normalization habit
• Roughly ~one CF per query
• Denormalize!
• Use in-column entity caching

C*ollege Credit: Data Modeling for Apache Cassandra http://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/college-credit-data-modeling-for-apache-cassandra

Cassandra @ eBay http://www.slideshare.net/jaykumarpatel/cassandra-at-ebay-cassandra-summit-2013

Cassandra By Example: Data Modelling with CQL3 http://www.slideshare.net/jericevans/cassandra-by-example-data-modelling-with-cql3

Wikipedia lists ~100 component names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bicycle_parts