Tag Archives: NoSQL

Book Review – Cassandra: The Definitive Guide

2010 will go down as a watershed year for NoSQL solutions. Apache Cassandra itself had a year that was, in the words of Jonathan Ellis, filled with Code, Community, and Controversy. Between all that activity, the brand new release of … Continue reading

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Database migrations for Cassandra with ActiveColumn

We at Carbon Five are pleased to announce the release of ActiveColumn – an object mapping framework for Apache Cassandra. Currently at version 0.1.1, this gem is young but functional with its first major feature of data migration support. Prior … Continue reading

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Cassandra and Rails talk at LA NoSQL meetup

Last week, Mike Wynholds presented at the inaugural Los Angeles No SQL meetup. The movement to these non-traditional data storage systems has exploded in the last year, and we had a chance to use Cassandra in one of our client’s … Continue reading

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