Custom Cassandra Data Types

In the blog post Connecting to Cassandra from Java, I mentioned that one advantage for Java developers of Cassandra being…

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Connecting to Cassandra from Java

In my post Hello Cassandra, I looked at downloading the Cassandra NoSQL database and using cqlsh to connect to a…

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Reactive Cassandra

Or an adventure on reading data reactively from Cassandra. Overview Let’s first try to define what reactive means from programming…

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Crawling the Web with Cassandra and Nutch

So, you want to harvest a massive amount of data from the internet?  What better storage mechanism than Cassandra?  This…

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Practical NoSQL experiences with Apache Cassandra

Most of the backend systems I’ve worked with over the years have employed relational database storage in some role. Despite…

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What is Big Data – Theory to Implementation

What is Big Data? You may ask; and more importantly why it is the latest trend in nearly every business…

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Running Cassandra in a Multi-node Cluster

This post gathers the steps I followed in setting up an Apache Cassandra cluster in multi-node. I have referred Cassandra…

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A SMALL cross-section of BIG Data

Big data is a term applied to data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools…

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Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase comparison

Kristóf Kovács performed a very interesting brief comparison among six of the most popular “NoSQL” database implementations. Additionally to Kristóf’s work,…

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