Introduction to Cassandra

Cassandra, more than any other database, is the poster child of Cloud data stores.

Come listen to Gary Dusbabek, systems architect and Cassandra committer at Rackspace, talk about the database Facebook created and gave to the Apache Foundation, now used in production at Rackspace, Digg, Reddit, and Twitter.

In this session, you'll learn

Under what conditions it is better to use Cassandra over other data stores
What the data model is like (key spaces, etc)
How you can get started
How to operate Cassandra

Food and drinks graciously provided by Fenwick.