I’ve been a big fan of Solr for quite a long time, and have used it extensively at work. I noticed a few weeks ago that Jake Luciani had managed to get Lucene (which Solr uses) working on Cassandra (Facebook’s highly scalable keystore). The next step had an obvious name: Solandra – Solr running on Cassandra. Basically there wasn’t too much to getting it going in the limited form it is now – a few