
If you are trying to run Pig on Cassandra and you encounter: "binary operator expected"You
are most likely running pig_cassandra against the latest...
0 replies - 3626 views - 01/01/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management
of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra.
Using Whirr,...
0 replies - 4015 views - 12/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management
of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra.
Using Whirr,...
1 replies - 4111 views - 12/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Love Cassandra? Love REST?Wish you could have both at the same time?Now you can.After much discussion,
I'm happy to announce the birth of a new project,...
2 replies - 4945 views - 12/22/11 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Database storage is expensive. This is especially true if you build a
traditional SAN based M+N cluster. The cost of the storage array, fiber
channel...
1 replies - 4901 views - 12/18/11 by Dan Pritchett in Articles

Up front, I'd like to say this is still pretty raw. We'd love to get feedback and contributions.That
said, Virgil (a services layer and GUI on top of...
0 replies - 5157 views - 12/15/11 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Operational stability and availability are a big deal when your application starts to handle the large, unstructured volumes of data that NoSQL solutions are...
1 replies - 9020 views - 12/15/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Cassandra pagination has been the subject of several blogs elsewhere as well. In particular this
excellent blog by Michael Kopp details how this can be...
1 replies - 5022 views - 12/12/11 by Buddhika Chamith in Articles

After working with Cassandra
for couple of months I thought of jotting down my Cassandra experience
including what we did, what I liked and not so liked....
1 replies - 7146 views - 12/06/11 by Buddhika Chamith in Articles

Here are some points to keep in mind when working with Cassandra.
Have to use ordered partitioner if you want row keys in sorted
order. Be aware...
1 replies - 3631 views - 11/30/11 by Buddhika Chamith in Articles

A little more than a year ago, Apache Cassandra's reputation was untouchable. It was blowing other NoSQL data stores out of the water in benchmarks and in...
1 replies - 6901 views - 11/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The stage is set this November for a NOSQL clash of the titans.
Sharing the stage at Skills Matter's first-ever NOSQL eXchange will be some of the biggest...
0 replies - 1086 views - 08/15/11 by James Skills in Announcements

The stage is set this November for a NOSQL clash of the titans.
Sharing the stage at Skills Matter's first-ever NOSQL eXchange will be some of the biggest...
0 replies - 3624 views - 08/15/11 by James Skills in Announcements

This is a talk by Jake Luciani of Riptano (Now DataStax). Check out the slides here: http://bit.ly/9Rbuyp The talk covers:Use cases for search and type of...
1 replies - 7656 views - 06/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Earlier this week, U.K.-based data storage startup Acunu made Castle, the storage core of the Acunu Storage Platform, open source. Castle is a fully-versioned,...
0 replies - 3879 views - 05/25/11 by Jim Moscater in News