Introduction to Cassandra

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Organiser
Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group
Date
Fri, 18 Jun 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
(Exact location not available) , Palo Alto, US
Cost
Free

Cassandra, more than any other database, is the poster child of Cloud data stores.


Come listen to Gary Dusbabek -systems architect and Cassandra committer at Rackspace- talk about the database Facebook created and gave to the Apache Foundation, now used in production at Rackspace, Digg, Reddit, and Twitter.


In this session, you'll learn


  • Under what conditions it is better to use Cassandra over other data stores
  • What the data model is like (key spaces, etc)
  • How you can get started
  • How to operate Cassandra

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