Thank you, I got a lot more out of:

Cassandra – A highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.

Than I did out of:

  0.5.0 final
   * avoid attempting to delete temporary bootstrap files twice (CASSANDRA-681)
   * fix bogus NaN in nodeprobe cfstats output (CASSANDRA-646)
   * provide a policy for dealing with single thread executors w/ a full queue
   (CASSANDRA-694)
   * optimize inner read in MessagingService, vastly improving multiple-node performance (CASSANDRA-675)
   * wait for table flush before streaming data back to a bootstrapping node.
   (CASSANDRA-696)
   * keep track of bootstrapping sources by table so that bootstrapping doesn't give the indication of finishing early (CASSANDRA-673)