I absolutely agree about hipster tech and databases, but I'm not so sure that Cassandra fits entirely into the "just works" category. Don't get me wrong, it's

I absolutely agree about hipster tech and databases, but I'm not so sure that Cassandra fits entirely into the "just works" category. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty neat and definitely more mature than stuff like Mongo or whatever other NoSQL-of-the-week, but it's not exactly at the level of PostgreSQL or even InnoDB/MySQL. It works, but it needs quite a bit of care and feeding by comparison.