I made mention of this during my presentation at the Cassandra Summit back in July, but we're finally ready to release the source for Usergrid. This is a mobile platform stack built on top of Cassandra and using Hector and we're making the full source code available on GitHub. We'll be offering it as a cloud service as well, but we wanted to follow the WordPress model of having both self-hosted and self-serve options.
Usergrid provides a bunch of cool features like activity streams, user management, and counter-based analytics as well as providing a very high-level fully indexed JSON-based data model via a REST API, so that you can unlock a lot of the power of Cassandra directly from Javascript. It's meant for mobile app developers who really want to just focus on their front-end development. Particularly cool is the double-clickable launcher app that fires up an embedded Cassandra server and makes running all this on your desktop a piece of cake. Our blog is at: http://blog.usergrid.com The code is up at: http://github.com/usergrid/stack Documentation is at: http://usergrid.github.com/docs Main website is: http://www.usergrid.com There's a mailing list set up for discussion at: http://groups.google.com/group/usergrid-user It's still a work-in-progress and there's a lot in there that still needs to be documented. Hope you'll check it out and find it interesting. Even if it's not something you'd have use of yourself, please forward this on to people you know who are trying to build data-rich mobile apps. Thanks Ed
