This is great news... At first glance, the Cassandra codebase looks smaller and simpler than HBase. It will be interesting to see how it compares -- I've had

This is great news... At first glance, the Cassandra codebase looks smaller and simpler than HBase. It will be interesting to see how it compares -- I've had data integrity with HBase, but I'm also doing weird stuff to it (storing tons of scientific floating-point data...)