Cassandra

Analysis and discussion of the open source data management project Cassandra. Related subjects include:

July 21, 2008

Project Cassandra — Facebook’s open sourced quasi-DBMS

Edit: I posted much fresher information about Cassandra in July, 2010.

Facebook has open-sourced Project Cassandra, an imitation of Google’s BigTable.  Actual public information about Facebook’s Cassandra seems to reside in a few links that may be found on the Cassandra Project’s Google code page.  All the discussion I’ve seen seems to be based solely on some slides from a SIGMOD presentation. In particular, Dare Obasanjo offers an excellent overview of Cassandra.  To wit: Read more

Categories: Cassandra, Cloud computing, Data models and architecture, Facebook, NoSQL 11 Comments 

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