45. Apache Cassandra 1.0: faster, more powerful, easier NoSQL

Type:
Poster
Audience level:
Novice
Category:
Databases/NoSQL
March 11th 8:35 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.

Description

The Cassandra distributed database has added many new features over the past year based on real-world needs of developers at Twitter, Netflix, Openwave, and others building massively scalable systems. This poster will explain some of these use cases and give examples of data modeling and code in Python. I will be happy to answer questions.

Abstract

Cassandra architecture basics

  • Bulletproof reliability
  • Best-in-class support for multiple datacenters
  • High-performance storage engine based on Bigtable

Use cases

  • Netflix
  • Backupify
  • Constant contact

Data modeling

  • Time series data
  • A/B testing

Code samples

  • The Pycassa Python client
  • Hadoop, Pig and Hive for analytics