[needs-packaging] Cassandra

[Fred]

Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is an Apache Software Foundation top-level project[1] designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28database%29

URL: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
License: Apache License 2

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Here you can find an installation how to:
http://dustyreagan.com/installing-cassandra-on-ubuntu-linux/

But, path of debs has changed.

This is the how to of installing Cassandra in Debian an derivates:
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging