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The following page has been changed by johanoskarsson: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FrontPage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Cassandra Wiki = 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. + + Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0. Cassandra is in production use at Facebook but is still under heavy development. 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 @@ -32, +34 @@ * HowToContribute * HowToCommit + == Mailing lists == + * Users: [email protected] [mailto://[email protected] (subscribe)] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cassandra-user/ (archives)] + * Developers: [email protected] [mailto://[email protected] (subscribe)] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cassandra-dev/ (archives)] + * Commits: [email protected] [mailto://[email protected] (subscribe)] + == Related Information == * [http://incubator.apache.org/thrift Thrift], used by Cassandra for client access.
