For newcomers to Cassandra, all the terminology can be a little overwhelming at first. If you have experience with relational databases, some concepts like a "Row" or a "Primary Key" will be familiar. But other terms that seem ...

If you're like me and currently do most of your development work on a Windows machine, the first thing you'll need to do when you want to build an application on Cassandra is figure out how to install it on said machine. When I ...

When I started at DataStax 11 months ago, I was a total Cassandra newb. Sure, I'd been writing code for a number of years (with most of the last 10 years spent in the world of .NET), but the applications I was building were typically built ...

My colleague, Jon Haddad, has a great interactive "Intro to Python and Cassandra" presentation available on GitHub. If you want to run through this presentation on Windows though, you might run into a few challenges getting it up ...

One of the cool things about the evangelist team at DataStax is that we're encouraged to spend time writing code to contribute back to the community. For example, Helena's work on the Spark Cassandra connector, Jon's work on cqlengine, ...