APACHE CASSANDRATM COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI) REFERENCE What is Cassandra?

formance, extremely scalable, fault tolerant (i.e. no single point of failure), distributed post-relational database solution. Cassandra combines all the benefits of Google Bigtable and Amazon Dynamo to handle the types of database management needs that traditional RDBMS vendors can-not support. DataStax is the leading worldwide commercial provider of Cassandra products, services, support, and training. How do I install Cassandra? Downloading and installing Cassandra is very easy. Downloads of Cassandra are available via the DataStax web site at: www.datastax. com/download. For installation guidance, please see our online documentation at: www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/getting_ started/index and www.datastax.com/ docs/1.0/install/index. You can also view a guided video tutorial for install-ing a simple Cassandra and DataStax OpsCenter setup at: www.datastax. com/resources/tutorials. What client libraries/drivers can I use with Cassandra? There are a number of CQL (Cas-sandra Query Language) drivers and native client libraries available for most all popular development languages (e.g. Java, Ruby, etc.) All drivers and client libraries can be downloaded from: www.datastax.com/download/ clientdrivers