Posts Tagged ‘cassandra’

11 links on scalable software architecture and big data

August 19th, 2010 | By Christoph in Software-Development | No Comments »

From time to time I go through my bookmarks and fetch interesting links I came across during the last couple of month. This article is kind of Part 2 of a past article with links and videos about scalability and software architecture.

1. Learning from Five Years as a Skype Architect – Andres Kutt
2. Scale at Facebook
3. Murder: Fast datacenter code deploys using BitTorrent
4. What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
5. Multithreading Magic
6. NoSQL  The Definitive Guide
7. Getting Good IO from Amazon’s EBS
8. Building a terabyte-scale data cycle at LinkedIn with Hadoop and Project Voldemort
9. Scalability of the Hadoop Distributed File System
10. Understanding Cassandra Code Base
11. Big Data in Real-Time at Twitter

Cassandra Distributed Database – a link list for beginners

April 12th, 2010 | By Christoph in Software-Development | 2 Comments »

I am currently playing around with Apache Cassandra (distributed database) and this article is to store all the links I have used before I close my browser with trillions of open tabs :)

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions
http://prettyprint.me/2010/02/23/hector-a-java-cassandra-client/

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DataModel

Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 5 Parts (very good article series!!!)
http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=80
http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=108
http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=207
http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=251
http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=354
Update 2010/04/13: Ronald Mathies commented that he has two new articles. Thanks!
About importing / exporting data from a Cassandra Database: http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=448
Creating custom sorting types for Cassandra: http://www.sodeso.nl/?p=421

WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1502735/whats-the-best-practice-in-designing-a-cassandra-data-model

https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/mar/02/4_months_with_cassandra/

Building a small Cassandra Cluster for Development and Testing

Cassandra: RandomPartitioner vs OrderPreservingPartitioner

http://about.digg.com/blog/looking-future-cassandra

http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/

http://emmanuelpozo.com/post/317479418/cassandra-messaging-1

Time Series-Data Model

If somebody has some more links on examples and best practices forCassandra data models, then please comment. Thanks.