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The following page has been changed by EricEvans: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FrontPage The comment on the change is: first stab at FrontPage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #format wiki #language en #pragma section-numbers off - = WikiName Wiki = + = Cassandra Wiki = - What is this wiki about? + Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from [http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf Dynamo] and the data model from Google's [http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf BigTable]. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is [http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/12/eventually_consistent.html eventually consistent]. Like !BigTable, Cassandra provides a !ColumnFamily-based data model richer than typical key/value systems. + This is a wiki, and with the exception of a few immutable pages, anyone + can edit it. Try SyntaxReference if you need help on wiki markup, and + FindPage or SiteNavigation to search for existing pages before creating a + new one. If you aren't sure where to begin, checkout RecentChanges to see + what others have been working on, or RandomPage if you are feeling lucky. - Interesting starting points: - * RecentChanges: see where people are currently working - * WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing - * FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways - * SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax - * SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains + == General Information == - == How to use this site == + * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra Offical Cassandra Website] (download, bug-tracking, mailing-lists, etc) + * wiki:Self:Presentations about Cassandra. + * wiki:Self:PowerdBy, a list of sites and applications powered by Cassandra. + * A [wiki:Self:DataModel description of the Cassandra data model]. + == User Documentation == - A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share: - * Edit any page by pressing '''[[GetText(Edit)]]''' at the top or the bottom of the page - * Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with {{{["quoted words in brackets"]}}} - * Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page - * See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages. - To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about MoinMoin:WhyWikiWorks and the MoinMoin:WikiNature. Also, consult the MoinMoin:WikiWikiWebFaq. + * GettingStarted + + == Developer Documentation == + + * HowToContribute + * HowToCommit + + == Related Information == + + * [http://incubator.apache.org/thrift Thrift], used by Cassandra for client access. This wiki is powered by MoinMoin.
