I've been wanting to try out Cassandra for a while now, ever since I heard how easy replication is. Let's start with the basics:

• Cassandra is a part of Apache Hadoop

• Cassandra is a NoSQL database

• Cassandra needs Java

• Cassandra has two ways to manipulate data - The thrift language and …

Just decided I wanted to get into programming with Groovy again so I took a look to find out how hard would it be to install this on FreeBSD 9.1. Did a little research online and as it turns out, not too hard :)

First you'll need Java installed - there …