GridCentric: Howto: Build and scale a Cassandra cluster in five minutesThursday, August 5, 2010 Howto: Build and scale a Cassandra cluster in five minutes Introduction In the spirit of the software recipes we've been posting recently, I decided to give Cassandra a shot. Cassandra is a distributed key-value store that was open-sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is now under the umbrella of the Apache foundation. It advertises high-performance and robustness to individua
