Here is a discussion about implementing twitter with Cassandra http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/05/12/cassandra-by-example/
An example of the same on github http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra If you have not done already checkout the articles page on the wiki http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations Aaron On 20 Sep 2010, at 21:57, Morten Wegelbye Nissen wrote: > Hello List, > > No matter where you read, you almost every-where read the the noSQL datascema > is completely different from the relational way - and after a little insight > in cassandra everyone can 2nd that. > > But I miss to see some real-life examples on how a real system can be > modelled. Lets take the example for a system where users can send messages to > each other. ( Completely imaginary, noone would use cassandra for a > mailsystem :) ) > > If one should create such a system, what CF's would be used? And how would > you per example find all not read messages? > > ./Morten
