This is the second post on my little “Cassandra – Getting Started” series covering the installation and basic configuration of Cassandra. Cassandra is extremely easy to set up, especially compared to HBase. All you got to do is to download, extract, edit a single XML-file and run. But let us take it step by step.

This post addresses Java developers who want to get their feet wet with Cassandra. This is the first post in a series of three in which I describe Cassandras data model as seen from the angle of a typical Java developer. By contributing a javaish view on the data model, I try to extend the set of existing data model descriptions.