Are there any data modeling exercises for Cassandra like Retwis for Redis?

Question

I'm trying to learn how to map the entities/actors/objects/things in my application for storage in Cassandra. There was a great tutorial for Redis on modeling Twitter data and typical access patterns called Retwis [1]. I've found a couple of examples for Cassandra.

How did you start to gain an intuition for Cassandra's data model?

[1] http://retwis.antirez.com/

Answer 1

http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra is a twitter clone in the same vein as retwis, originally for 0.3 and now being updated for 0.6. Catch erifclo in #cassandra on irc if you have questions.

Answer 2

• you should start with WTF is a SuperColumn to understand the data model.

• up and running with cassandra is also a very good starting tutorial and it has example schemas for a blog and for twitter.