Cassandra NYC 2011: Chris Burroughs - Cassandra at Clearspring

Chris Burroughs is a developer at Clearspring Technologies where he works on the Data and Analytics team. There he wrestles with the black art of JVM tuning, searches for meaning in TCP state diagrams, and continues the never ending journey to make sense of distributed systems. Chris is also the leader of the Cassandra DC users group.

DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™, along with the NYC Cassandra User Group, NoSQL NYC, and Big Data NYC joined together to present the first Cassandra New York City conference on December 6, 2011.

DataStax offers products and services based on the popular open-source database, Apache Cassandra™ that solve today's most challenging big data problems. DataStax Enterprise (DSE) combines the performance of Cassandra with analytics powered by Apache Hadoop™, creating a smartly integrated, data-centric platform. With DSE, real-time and analytic workloads never conflict, giving you maximum performance with the added benefit of only managing a single database. The company has over 100 customers, including leaders such as Netflix, Cisco, Rackspace and Constant Contact, and spanning verticals including web, financial services, telecommunications, logistics and government. DataStax is backed by industry leading investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital and is based in San Mateo, CA.

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[DatabaseCraftsman]

It's mainly based on 0.6, and not so valuable for latest 1.0/1.1 implementation.

[Charlie MuJiang]

Just so so. 5 of 10.