The wiki is generally a good start: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/
<http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/>For background reading, the following papers will be useful: - http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf - Google BigTable - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html - Amazon Dynamo - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf - Facebook Cassandra - http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf - SEDA (a scalable application architecture) These are excellent primers on the fundamentals of Cassandra's design, but it's important to note that things have progressed a lot since these were published, so details (in particular, the implementation described by Facebook) has evolved significantly since then. The SEDA paper is not a database systems paper, rather it's an application architecture paper that describes the internal architecture used by Cassandra. Regards, Nick Telford On 24 January 2011 09:33, Zhijie Shen <zjshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, GSoC 2011 has started! I'm also interested in it:-) > > There were a number of ideas proposed in the last year. I can see some of > them are still open now. So what will committers plan for this year? > > Regards, > Zhijie > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Eranda Sooriyabandara <0704...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am Eranda Sooriyabandara of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am > > interested in starting on this project as well as apply GSoC 2011, if you > > willing to apply for it. I am interested in learning database concepts > and > > I > > have applied some patches for Apache Derby previously. Since this is a > new > > approach as a database which used by facebook and twitter I am very much > > interested in learning how the things working inside Cassendra, > especially > > big table and dynamo concepts which is bit new to me. If you help me to > > start, > > > > Where can I start > > The documents I can prefer > > Any issue to solve while learning how things work > > > > on this it would be great and highly appreciated. > > > > thanks > > Eranda > > > > PS: I downloaded the trunk and built it successfully > > > > > > -- > Zhijie Shen > School of Computing > National University of Singapore > <http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ez-shen/> >
