List of resources to learn cassandra

Question

Hi all,

Lately I have been reading a lot of blog topics about big sites(facebook, twitter, digg, reddit to name a few) using cassandra as their datastore instead of MysqL.

I would like to gather a list of resources to learn using cassandra. Hopefully some videos or podcasts explaining how to use cassandra.

My list

• Twissandra - Twissandra is an example project, created to learn and demonstrate how to use Cassandra. Running the project will present a website that has similar functionality to Twitter
• WTF is a supercolumn - WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model

I hope there are resources to watch howto use cassandra.

Many thanks, Alfred

Answer 1

I found these articles really helpful coming from the relational world:

• http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=80
• http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=108
• http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=207

Right now the docs available for cassandra is limited in some places. I've been watching the Cassandra user and dev email list like a hawk. That seems to be where most of the FAQ's live.