Archive | November, 2011

The Cassandra Data Model – Another Gratuitous Introduction

I recently had a conversation in #cassandra about the Data Model that I thought might be useful to try to distill into a few lines. These few lines ignore all of the implementation details to make it work in practice but it gives you the starting point. It looks a little something like this …

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Cassandra-cql ruby gem for Cassandra 1.0

Cassandra-cql has been updated for the latest version of cassandra. It supports all of the datatypes and has proper encoding support for ruby 1.9. It is also now published as a gem so a simple ‘gem install cassandra-cql’ should get you ready to roll with Ruby and Cassandra. The official location for the code is [...]

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