Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 1 (Installation)
This series starts here and goes for five (5) parts for Cassandra 0.6.4.
From the introduction:
I’m going to write a few postings on how to use the Cassandra database with Java, although i am in no way an expert on how to use Cassandra i am very intrigued about the database because of it’s small installation, high performance and scalability. During the writing of these posts i am also learning the Cassandra database and i’m sharing my experiences with it through my posts on this blog.
Like i said before, Cassandra is a very high performing and scalable database, it doesn’t follow the normal SQL database principles like schema’s, tables / columns, datatypes and a query language like SQL. Instead it’s a non-relational database similar to Google’s BigTable. Cassandra was initially developed by Facebook which has contributed it to the open source community. Currently it is used by websites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Rackspace and many others. So even though it is still only version 0.6 at the time of writing this it has already proven itself in production environments.
It isn’t possible to say which (if any) of the NoSQL databases will prove to be the best fits for topic maps in particular or general situations.
What is clear is that a lot of experimentation and development is underway and hopefully the results will be interesting.