Resources on Apache Cassandra for the .Net devs

I’ve been playing around with MongoDB, a no SQL database just like Facebook’s Cassandra. This morning I heard about Nick Berardi’s posts about running Cassandra on Windows and decided to do some reading on it.

In the process I’ve found some useful links

• Download latest stable release of Apache Cassandra
• Cassandra jump start for the Windows developer, which covers the installation and configuration steps

At this point I realize “yikes, do I have to have the terminal window open to run Cassandra”. Upon quick search I found another Nick’s excellent post:

• Running Cassandra as a Windows service

While I’ve got those 2 projects downloading on the background, I just realize the C# code needed to connect to Cassandra (through an intermediary service called Thrift)looks quite ugly.

And I found Nick’s Fluent Cassandra project:

• First Fluent Cassandra Application part 1
• First Fluent Cassandra Application part 2