I recorded a list of issues that may prevent you from using Cassandra as a general purpose website storage right now. http://www.codexon.com/posts/is-cassandra

I recorded a list of issues that may prevent you from using Cassandra as a general purpose website storage right now. http://www.codexon.com/posts/is-cassandra-ready-yet http://www.codexon.com/posts/is-cassandra-ready-yet It appears as though Ted's complaint about needing to restart Cassandra to modify ColumnFamilies (tables) is nearly obselete. A patch for the last remaining subtask has been submitted.