Re: Cassandra basics

2010-07-26 Thread sonia gehlot
Thanks themanatuf, This is awesome link... really they explained data model very nicely especially for folks from RDMS background. Regards, Sonia On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Uncle Mantis wrote: > I want to point out my up hill battle tips. > > Make some friends in the Freenode #Cassandra

Re: Cassandra basics

2010-07-24 Thread Uncle Mantis
I want to point out my up hill battle tips. Make some friends in the Freenode #Cassandra IRC channel. Stop hunting for formal documentation and just read all articles and examples you can get a hold if regardless of it is Java or PHP or Ruby. Take a look at Thrift and it's many wrappers. Ther

Re: Cassandra basics

2010-07-23 Thread themana...@juno.com
Sonia, If you haven't visited the site below, I think it does the best job of explaining what Cassandra is all about: http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model Consider a group of ColumFamilies within a Keyspace like a group of tables in a database. CompareWith tells Cassa