Recommended starting points Introduction to Cassandra at FOSDEM 2010 (video + slides) How to set up a 4 node Cassandra cluster in under 2 minutes Cassandra by Example, an explanation of the Twissandra data model and code. A demo is up at http://twissandra.com/. Ports to Java and C# are also available. Maxim Grinev's posts on modeling basics, translating SQL concepts to Cassandra, and update idempo