The growing popularity of Apache Cassandra rests on its ability to handle very large data sets that include hundreds of terabytes. That's why this distributed database has been chosen by organizations such as Twitter, Digg, and Rackspace. In this video tutorial, Cassandra committer Eric Evans lets you get your hands on Cassandra right away. You'll not only understand how it works, but also how to take advantage of this database in a production environment.
Learn step-by-step how to set up a single single-node instance of Cassandra
Watch Cassandra in action through a demo project called Twissandra, a simple Twitter clone written in Python and Django
Understand how Cassandra compares to other NoSQL systems
Get best practices for operating a Cassandra cluster, including how to:
Select hardware
Commission and decommission nodes
Deal with failures
Monitor and repair
Tune for better performance and more
With this informative video, you’ll quickly get up to speed on Cassandra and understand how to put it to work in your organization.
"Hands-On Cassandra" captures one of the popular tutorial sessions presented at OSCON 2010 -- the O'Reilly Open Source Convention held in Portland, Oregon in July. Other videos of OSCON 2010 sessions include:
Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu with Chef
Building a NoSQL Data Cloud
Cooking with jQuery
Django Deployment Workshop
Introduction to Django
Observing and Optimizing your Application with DTrace
