Cassandra is a robust and highly scalable NoSQL datastore that usually consists of multiple nodes spread out across multiple datacenters.  If you are the system administrator for a large Cassandra deployment then you might be curious as to how your cluster is doing.  In fact your job probably depends on it!  So how can you combine a great service like Monitis with Cassandra to make sure you cluster is buzzing along smoothly?

Cassandra is a complex, highly scalable NoSQL database system that was initially developed by Facebook and is now under the purview of the Apache Foundation.  Apache Casandra has risen as a welcome alternative to HBase, another highly scalable, and available key value store.

Cassandra is different from most Relational Databases in that it stores data by column instead of by row.  This makes aggregating column values super fast.  It also makes dealing with the database somewhat different as well.  Instead of creating tables, you create column families.  And I shouldn’t have to mention this, but Cassandra is a NoSql solution, so don’t expect any “joins”!