Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 4 10:36:00 CDT 2012
The Cassandra DB makes the bold claim that it is going after Oracle. Whether that statement is realistic is open for debate but they can hardly be faulted for their enthusiasm as their product adoption is growing in leaps and bounds. The one problem that has characterized most of the new-age Map-Reduce databases is that their human interface is rudimentary in the extreme, the actual database is stand-alone, their distributive system is a separate set of modules. Cassandra now has/is an assembled set. It is still far from having a pretty desktop or web based interface but it no longer requires months of playing just to get it up and running as most DB programmers will have to forget and re-learn as much just to become barely competent. http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/01/datastax-funding/ ...and downloading and details on how to load Cassandra on a single machine and as said, "kick the tires". (An excellent down-time and/or winter project.) http://www.datastax.com/resources/articles/getting-started-with-apache-cassa ndra Jim