Introduction to Cassandra (June 2010) View more presentations from gdusbabek. Whats not mentioned in the slide was Gary’s reference to the number of key changes in 0.7 version of Cassandra. He thinks beta would be out in a month and that it will address a lot of issues which is currently keeping a lot of [...]

This is a very interesting talk by Jonathan Ellis on database scalability. He designed and implemented multi-petabyte storage for Mozy and is currently the project chair for Apache Cassandra. What every developer should know about database scalability, PyCon 2010 View more presentations from jbellis. Scalability is not improving latency, but increasing throughput But overall performance [...]