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The "CLI Design" page has been changed by wolfeidau. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CLI%20Design?action=diff&rev1=1&rev2=2 -------------------------------------------------- Cassandra is a distributed database project which was contributed to Apache by Facebook and is now maintained by contributors from a range of companies and some individual contributors. Over the last six or so months there has been increasing interest in distributed databases on the back of the NoSQL movement started by some guy from Rackspace. This in addition to well attended talks from key contributors has led to quite a lot of people trying out Cassandra for the first time. Some of these new users have observered that Cassandra although damn cool looking is very hard to get started with, this is for a few reasons: - 1. Modeling data in Cassandra is very different from the typical RDBMS, which people are used to using. + #n Modeling data in Cassandra is very different from the typical RDBMS, which people are used to using. - 2. The tools and initial user experiance not awfully friendly + #n The tools and initial user experiance not awfully friendly - 3. Most of the interest comes from segments of the Python, Ruby communities which are not entirely familiar with how to manage java based services. + #n Most of the interest comes from segments of the Python, Ruby communities which are not entirely familiar with how to manage java based services. - 4. Monitoring of statistics requires an understanding of JMX and is difficult to do outside of the Java Virtual Machine. + #n Monitoring of statistics requires an understanding of JMX and is difficult to do outside of the Java Virtual Machine. This is mainly due to a focus on tidying up and enhancing core internal functions, as apposed to working on the CLI.
