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The "CLI Design" page has been changed by wolfeidau. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CLI%20Design?action=diff&rev1=6&rev2=7 -------------------------------------------------- = Introduction = - 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: + 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 as well as some individuals. 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 observed that Cassandra although it looks damn cool can is very hard to get started with. This is for a few reasons: * Modeling data in Cassandra is very different from the typical RDBMS, which people are used to using. * The tools provided need some work to address error management and overall ease of use. - * Most of the interest comes from segments of the Python, Ruby communities which are not entirely familiar with how to manage java based services. + * Most of the interest comes from segments of the php, Python and Ruby communities which are not entirely familiar with the Java Language(for example using timeuuid in php), and how to manage java based services. * Monitoring of statistics requires an understanding of JMX and is difficult to do outside of the Java Virtual Machine. * The API through which Cassandra is accessed can be difficult to build, quite brittle at times. @@ -14, +14 @@ This document will detail a plan to improve the initial user experience by addressing some of these issues. + = Overview = + + In the following sections each of the previously mentioned reasons will be explored in more detail and some ideas outlined to solve them. +
