This document summarizes an introduction to Cassandra and Linux. It discusses Cassandra's origins from Amazon's Dynamo and Google's BigTable systems. It also outlines key features of Cassandra like availability, scalability, performance and data center support. The document provides hardware recommendations for Cassandra including memory, CPU, disks and configuration guidance. It concludes by listing resources for learning more about Cassandra.
54. Come to the Summit!
Ask me for a discount code (nick@datastax.com)
June 11-12, 2013
San Francisco, CA
http://www.datastax.com/company/news-and-events/events/
cassandrasummit2013
Saturday, June 1, 13