Heroku and Cassandra – Cassandra.io RESTful APIs by Istvan Szegedi.
From the post:
Introduction
Last time I wrote about Hadoop on Heroku which is on add-on from Treasure Data – this time I am going to cover NoSQL on Heroku.
There are various datastore services – add-ons in Heroku terms – available from MongoDB (MongoHQ) to CouchDB (Cloudant) to Cassandra (Cassandra.io). This post is devoted to Cassandra.io.
Cassandra.io
Cassandra.io is a hosted and managed Cassandra ring based on Apache Cassandra and makes it accessible via RESTful API. As of writing this article, the Cassandra.io client helper libraries are available in Java, Ruby and PHP, and there is also a Objective-C version in private beta. The libraries can be downloaded from github. I use the Java library in my tests.
Heroku – and Cassandra.io add-on, too – is built on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and it is supported in all Amazon’s locations. Note: Cassandra.io add-on is in public beta now that means you have only one option called Test available – this is free.
Another opportunity to explore your NoSQL options.