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There are some really nice work in this release like the compaction work and years of testing to help add to the stability that I think is makes a strong 1.0 release for the Cassandra team.

I would like to see some more example data models and deployments on Cassandra because I still find the column model entirely unintuitive but that is more a limitation of my brain as obviously people are deploying on it just fine.

Agreed, this is something that takes a little getting used to.

Diagrams help: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/index

Max's posts also include some good examples, although they predate some features like column indexes: http://maxgrinev.com/2010/07/12/do-you-really-need-sql-to-do...

They should make the font size smaller, I was almost able to read it.

Yeah, gmane sucks that way. Alternate archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg180...

...and no one cares.

I think sites like Reddit and Digg, whom depend on Cassandra, will care quite alot.

Reddit, which is growing very much, will appreciate the performance improvements.

Apache Cassandra 1.0 released.