Recently I have been exploring the NoSQL options for .NET and specifically a database called Cassandra. In case you haven’t heard of Cassandra before, it is a decentralized, fault-tolerant, elastic database designed by Facebook for high availability. As Wikipedia describes it: Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is an Apache Software Foundation top-level project, as of February 17, 2010, designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a NoSQL solution that was initially developed by Facebook and powers their Inbox Search feature. Jeff Hammerbacher, who led the Facebook Data team at the time, has described Cassandra as a BigTable data model running on an Amazon Dynamo-like infrastructure. I bet you have used data that has been served by Cassandra and not even realized it, here are some prominent users of Cassandra: * Facebook
* Digg
* Twitter
* RedditSounds interesting or at least worth a look, right? Well I thought so, however during my journey of getting the database setup I have come to realize there is almost no documentation on installation for Linux, and even less for Windows. So I am going to provide you with a jump start to installing Cassandra on your machine. I am doing this so you don’t have to spend days jumping around the web, going down false paths, and pulling your hair out like I did, all so you can get on to what you really care about … development.
First Things FirstThe first thing you need to understand about Cassandra is that it is developed in Java. So you can run it on any machine that supports Java 6 or better. So before you go any farther make sure you Java JRE is updated to the latest version. The next thing you need is a copy of Cassandra. Which can be found here. My setup is going to be based off of the latest stable release.
Running From WindowsAs I said before you can run from an operating system that Java has a runtime for. So the first and probably most obvious one for a Windows developer, is running Cassandra on Windows. Read more: Nick Berardi's Coder Journal
* Digg
* RedditSounds interesting or at least worth a look, right? Well I thought so, however during my journey of getting the database setup I have come to realize there is almost no documentation on installation for Linux, and even less for Windows. So I am going to provide you with a jump start to installing Cassandra on your machine. I am doing this so you don’t have to spend days jumping around the web, going down false paths, and pulling your hair out like I did, all so you can get on to what you really care about … development.
First Things FirstThe first thing you need to understand about Cassandra is that it is developed in Java. So you can run it on any machine that supports Java 6 or better. So before you go any farther make sure you Java JRE is updated to the latest version. The next thing you need is a copy of Cassandra. Which can be found here. My setup is going to be based off of the latest stable release.
Running From WindowsAs I said before you can run from an operating system that Java has a runtime for. So the first and probably most obvious one for a Windows developer, is running Cassandra on Windows. Read more: Nick Berardi's Coder Journal
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